Album Reviews

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  GUM/Ambrose Kenny-Smith Make the Most of 'Ill Times'

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2024

  Jay Watson and Ambrose Kenny-Smith lead parallel musical lives you wouldn't necessarily expect to intersect. At surface level, they're ...

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  Joe Goddard's Songwriting Is Elastic on 'Harmonics'

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2024

  As a founding member of Hot Chip, Joe Goddard has long used his platform and resources to promote indie-leaning dance music...

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  Mas Aya Finds New Pathways on 'Coming and Going'

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2024

  Brandon Miguel Valdivia often makes music for meditation, but his sound is more reflective of firing synapses in a mercurial mind...

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  Remi Wolf's Energetic 'Big Ideas' Is Full to the Brim

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

  What's considered a "big idea"? According to Remi Wolf, "love, lust, anger, fantasies, harsh realities, vices, low lows and high highs" ...

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  Cassandra Jenkins Searches the Cosmos on 'My Light, My Destroyer'

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

  There is a careful balance between wry insight and open-heartedness in Cassandra Jenkins's songs. As on her very well-received 2021 album...

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  Truck Violence Plumb the Loudness of the Outskirts on 'Violence'

  PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2024

  There's something fascinating about Canada's prairie towns. The ghostly howl of the wind, the whispering of the grass, mist gathering ...

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  Kristin Witko's 'A Course in Miracles' Is a Mirror and a Telescope

  PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2024

  "We're grotesque, but we're feeling right at home." Those were the closing words Kristin Witko spoke on her 2019 debut album, the refracted...

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  pHoenix Pagliacci Is Thrillingly Multifaceted on 'Dichotomy'

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2024

  'Dichotomy' is the perfect title for pHoenix Pagliacci's new solo album; the Toronto MC and singer (known for formidable work in groups like...