Kidsmoke A Vision In The Dark Libertino Records Welsh quartet Kidsmoke debut their new album, A Vision in the Dark, and at first listen, this gorgeously-layered record is [...]
Japandroids Massey Fucking Hall Arts & Crafts If you saw Japandroids live prior to 2017, chances are it would have been in a modestly-sized, yet uncomfortably rammed [...]
Julian Taylor The Ridge Independent Few Toronto artists get me as excited with the news of new music as Julian Taylor does. A musical chameleon, Taylor’s work has come in the [...]
Wire 10:20 Pinkflag Records You could call Wire’s 10:20 a B-sides album. Released through the English band’s own label Pinkflag, they refer to the tracks on 10:20 as ‘strays’ — [...]
Blue Öyster Cult iHeart Radio Theatre N.Y.C. 2012 Frontiers Music Frontiers Music, along with Blue Öyster Cult, continue their release of archival [...]
Iggy Pop The Idiot (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Records Hot on the heels of the Lust For Life re-release two weeks ago, Iggy Pop has gone back to his roots to produce a [...]
Norah Jones Pick Me Up Off The Floor Blue Note Records Many listeners who consider themselves serious fans will instantly disregard the new Norah Jones album Pick Me [...]
Bibio Sleep On The Wing Warp Records To “sleep on the wing” is a reference to a bird called a swift that is capable of flying incredible distances without ever touching ground, [...]
Kelly Miller & Kyle Burnett Vague Complaints Tunecore Kelly Miller and Kyle Burnett met in 2018 in Monterrey, California while studying in a master’s [...]
Crown Lands Wayward Flyers Vol. 1 Universal Music Despite the electrifying and driving rock pulse of their recent singles “Howlin’ Back” and “Spit It Out”, Canada’s most [...]
Babbling April Days Of Retreat Independent How do you get out of the shadow of a band you are most compared with? Washington D.C. trio Babbling April are doing just that. [...]
Muzz Muzz Matador Records There is something, a feeling or perhaps even a perception, that goes beyond most reviewers’ abilities to explain adequately when an album resonates deeply, [...]
Blancmange Mindset Blanc Check Records The new Blancmange album opens with the title track, “Mindset”, and following a minute-long musical introduction, the unmistakable voice of Neil [...]
Run The Jewels RTJ4 BMG After promising their highly anticipated fourth album, RTJ4, would be available for free download in response to those in need due to the global pandemic and [...]
Black Sugar Transmission The Flowering Independent Even though this is the second album in a trilogy to be released in 2020, there is no sense of being stuck in the [...]
Iggy Pop Lust For Life (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Records Iggy Pop’s second solo album, made in collaboration with David Bowie and recorded in the divided city of [...]
Royal Canoe Glacial (Live) Paper Bag Records Royal Canoe is known for pushing boundaries of what we can imagine. Its music videos are surreal and its songs feature distorted [...]
ATD A Total Disappointment Kinda Cool Records Vancouver’s ATD have been tearing it up since blasting onto the punk scene in 2015. Their first full-length, A Total [...]
Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Joyful Noise Recordings As music fans, we demand progress from our favourite artists. With each successful album, we expect [...]
Rush Permanent Waves: 40th Anniversary Edition Universal Originally released in 1980, Permanent Waves is the latest Rush album in their series of reissues, [...]
