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Album Review: Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today

Michael Cyrs·July 20, 2020

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey must read quite a lot. On the band’s 2014 track “Maidenhead” he retold a...

Kyle Kohner·July 17, 2020

Against the backdrop of Canada’s opioid crisis, Vancouver multimedia collective Crack Cloud are keeping hope and artistic singularity...

Written amidst upheaval on a personal and national scale, the new album from Australian Sophie Payten offers a...

Kyle Kohner·June 29, 2020

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

Rob Hakimian·June 16, 2020

Kate NV’s previous album, 2018’s для FOR, was a sonic ode to her hometown of Moscow – but...

Todd Dedman·June 10, 2020

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

Andy Johnston·May 22, 2020

It’s been 10 long years since Owen Pallett left behind the fantasy world of 14th-century Spectrum that served...

Andy Johnston·May 15, 2020

The music Mike Hadreas has been making as Perfume Genius over the past 10 years has never exactly...

Grady Penna·May 14, 2020

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

Rob Hakimian·May 1, 2020

Even back when he would sit in his car to record vocals for the earliest Car Seat Headrest...