KIM DEAL NOBODY LOVES YOU MORE 4AD When you hear the words “Kim Deal’s first solo album”, you’d be forgiven for expecting to hear more of the same clattering rhythms and incongruous lyricism that made her a behemoth of the alternative rock scene [...]
FATHER JOHN MISTY MAHASHMASHANA SUB POP RECORDS Josh Tillman, also known as Father John Misty, has been making music for over 20 years. Since 2012’s Fear Fun, the majority of releases are under the name Father John Misty. Mahashmashana is Father [...]
TOMBSTONES IN THEIR EYES ASYLUM HARBOUR KITTEN ROBOT RECORDS Feeling trapped is not applicable only to physical confinement, but also in how one can be stuck with a certain feeling. At first this sense of imprisonment can be non-existent, [...]
TIM BOVACONTI AGAIN INDEPENDENT Tim Bovaconti is a veteran of the Canadian music scene. His CV is very impressive, with the list of artists he has worked with being the who’s who of artists, including Burton Cummings, Ron Sexsmith, Kim [...]
TV ON THE RADIO DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY BABES (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) TOUCH AND GO RECORDS Looking back on the release of their 2004 debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, Brooklyn art-rockers TV On The Radio commemorate [...]
MICHAEL KIWANUKA SMALL CHANGES POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC Michael Kiwanuka is an essential voice, a testament to the potential and referential depth of neo-soul. It is. Rooted in the past with a finger on the pulse of our contemporary conflicts and [...]
CHELSEA WOLFE UNBOUND LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS Having released the full-length LP She Reaches Out To She Reaches To She earlier this year, there’s an unsatisfying, critical urge to place these stripped down recordings on Unbound in juxtaposition [...]
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) SECRETLY DISTRIBUTION There have been a handful of albums across my timeline that have remained both consistent favourites as well as consistently solid listens from [...]