Album Reviews

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  They Grieve Come to the Light on 'To Which I Bore Witness'

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2023

  The best kept secret in Ontario's doom metal scene, They Grieve — the project of Gary Thibert and Deniz Guvenc, of Alaskan and Stay Here re...

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  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Are Wide Awake on 'Land of Sleeper'

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2023

  After the release of their debut album in 2017, Newcastle's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs were herded into the subcategory of "metal b...

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  Kelela Takes Flight on the Stunning 'Raven'

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2023

  On the front cover of Kelela's Raven, the singer is submerged in a borderless body of water, her face just barely visible above the surface...

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  Edwin Raphael Shapes a World of His Own on 'Warm Terracotta'

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2023

  "Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on a map...

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  Caroline Polachek's 'Desire, I Want to Turn Into You' Is All-Consuming

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2023

  When so much pop music feels like face cream and vape smoke, the invocation of true, real-world texture — abrasion and stickiness, grit and...

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  Pile Write New Stories on 'All Fiction'

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2023

  Over the course of their first seven albums, Pile have developed the particular brand of dissonant yet melodic rock that fans have come to...

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  Ron Sexsmith Is Blue-Sky Thinking on the Buoyant 'The Vivian Line'

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2023

  Ron Sexsmith's career seemed charmed from day one. When the lead-off track of your Daniel Lanois-assisted, Elvis Costello-adoring major lab...

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  Andy Shauf's Sinister, Lovesick 'Norm' Will Have You Looking over Your Shoulder

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2023

  Andy Shauf is a world-builder, and over the years he's granted listeners a visitor's pass into the lives of a motley crew of characters. We...