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Album Review: Jessy Lanza – All The Time

Rob HakimianJuly 30, 2020

Jessy Lanza’s three albums have all been sets of tightly-written and pristinely-produced pop songs, compacted into 40 minutes – but their slightness belies the...

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Album Review: Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today

Michael CyrsJuly 20, 2020

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey must read quite a lot. On the band's 2014 track "Maidenhead" he retold a dark tale from a 1941 novel by British author and playw...

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Album Review: Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics

Kyle KohnerJuly 17, 2020

Against the backdrop of Canada's opioid crisis, Vancouver multimedia collective Crack Cloud are keeping hope and artistic singularity burning brightly. This fa...

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Album Review: Gordi – Our Two Skins

Gareth O'MalleyJune 30, 2020

Written amidst upheaval on a personal and national scale, the new album from Australian Sophie Payten offers a starkly beautiful reimagining of the sound she e...

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Album Review: Arca – KiCk i

Kyle KohnerJune 29, 2020

Within the homogenized mass of modern pop music, few artists can claim true singularity. But, after a decade of pushing the boundaries of what pop music could ...

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Album Review: Kate NV – Room For The Moon

Rob HakimianJune 16, 2020

Kate NV’s previous album, 2018’s для FOR, was a sonic ode to her hometown of Moscow – but it was one that painted in abstracts, leaving the listener to shape a...

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Album Review: 404.zero – 404.0

Todd DedmanJune 10, 2020

Russian duo Kristina Karpysheva and Alexander Letsius are 404.zero, audio-visual creators whose debut album places them firmly amongst the best ambient produce...

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Album Review: Owen Pallett – Island

Andy JohnstonMay 22, 2020

It’s been 10 long years since Owen Pallett left behind the fantasy world of 14th-century Spectrum that served as the backdrop of their magnum opus, Heartland. ...

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Album Review: Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

Andy JohnstonMay 15, 2020

The music Mike Hadreas has been making as Perfume Genius over the past 10 years has never exactly been short on feeling. One listen to his quiveringly fragile ...

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Album Review: Moses Sumney – græ

Grady PennaMay 14, 2020

Moses Sumney thrives in the in-between. The 28-year-old’s music has always defied concrete definition, and Sumney seems totally fine sinking further into the i...

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