Album Reviews

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  Field Guide's 'Field Guide' Is an Intimate Self-Portrait

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Field Guide's sophomore full-length album is making its way out into the world, and it's bringing all the chill vibes you can handle along...

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  Carly Rae Jepsen's 'The Loneliest Time' Has Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Carly Rae Jepsen famously assembles her albums by drawing from a pool of dozens of potential songs, and The Loneliest Time is the result of...

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  Blessed Refuse Easy Answers on 'Circuitous'

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

  "Am I attempting living right?" Drew Riekman asks in "Redefine," the pensive, winding opener from Blessed's sophomore LP Circuitous. Riekma...

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  Matt Foster's 'True Needs' Is a Quiet Storm

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

  Matt Foster is in no rush. On "Hospital," a particularly muted track planted delicately in the middle of their stunning debut solo album Tr...

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  Junior Boys' 'Waiting Game' Pays Off

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022

  Hamilton electro-funk duo Junior Boys have carried the torch of Canadian sub-mainstream electronic music steadily, if sometimes unspectacul...

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  Taylor Swift Is Her Own Timekeeper on 'Midnights'

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022

  Nothing exists in a vacuum — least of all a Taylor Swift album. Perhaps more so than any other modern-day pop star, to be a critical consum...

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  BRASS Continue to Shine on 'Look on the Bright Side'

  PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2022

  "Winning Hand" — the first single off Look on the Bright Side, the new EP from Vancouver hardcore punks BRASS — is the perfect introduction...

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  Tim Baker Throws an Uplifting Party with 'The Festival'

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2022

  Three years after his debut album Forever Overheard, Newfoundland's Tim Baker is officially back with a record of post-pandemic anthems tha...