Algiers There Is No Year Matador Records Imagine, if you will, a landscape that is simple but crushing in its portrayal of desolation – narrow alleyways, grimy streets, the [...]
SPILL MAGAZINE’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2019 2019 was a year of incredible turmoil, change, and upheaval as the world came to grips with the global growth of political and [...]
elbow Giants Of All Sizes Polydor Records/Verve Label Group Manchester-based quartet elbow have been crafting songs and soundscapes of such warmth, honesty, and poetry as to be [...]
Bodega Shiny New Model What’s Your Rupture? New York-based Bodega’s have released a brand-new EP Shiny New Model. It is a worthy follow-up to the genre-fluid five-piece’s [...]
The New Pornographers In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights Concord Records Long-time purveyors of hook-filled, harmony-layered alternative jams, The [...]
Temples Hot Motion ATO Records The much-coveted musical sweet spot is an elusive one for bands and musicians of all genres and time periods. The almost alchemical confluence of [...]
FONTAINES D.C. @ THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE, TORONTO SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 In recent memory, there are few bands that have left me as excited by their [...]
Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes Bella Union I will be honest and say that I was totally unprepared for this singular fact – that on the day that Tool finally introduced us to [...]
Keb’ Mo’ Oklahoma Concord Records It goes without saying that Keb’ Mo’s reputation as an influential and talented modern-day blues and Americana performer is [...]
Priests The Seduction Of Kansas Sister Polygon Washington-based Priests returns with its sophomore release, the intriguingly-titled The Seduction of Kansas. Building a [...]
Wintersleep In The Land Of Dine Alone Records Wintersleep have developed an interesting trend over the past sixteen years since their 2003 debut, self-titled album. Though [...]
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part 1 Warner Music Foals, like their Oxfordshire brethren Radiohead, are not just unafraid of reinvention but [...]
OHMelectronic OHMelectronic Artoffact Records OHMelectronic is a Vancouver-based collaboration between producer Chris Peterson and musician Craig Joseph Huxtable. Dubbed the [...]
TRDMRK TRDMRK EP Hot Plate Records With so many rappers featuring on each other’s recordings, hip-hop supergroups have become rare, which makes TRDMRK—whose impressive lineup includes [...]
Dan Mangan @ New Vision United Church, Hamilton February 1, 2019 The New Vision United Church is located in the heart of downtown Hamilton and provides the [...]
SPILL MAGAZINE’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2018 With a huge team of writers and an absolutely massive list of albums reviewed this year, it was no easy task to come up with [...]
Humans Going Late Haven Sounds Vancouver-based Humans are an “electropop” (seriously, who comes up with these genre names?) duo made up of Robbie Slade and Peter Ricq. As a genre, EDM [...]
Dan Mangan More Or Less Arts & Crafts The very best writing about this album was done by Dan Mangan himself via his publicity team on his website. As a description of the [...]
