Album Reviews

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  iskwē and Tom Wilson's 'Mother Love' Is a Stunning Exercise in Contrasts

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2022

  iskwē and Tom Wilson's debut collaborative album, Mother Love, is a glorious wealth of contradictions. It begins with Wilson's voice counti...

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  The Sadies Claim 'Colder Streams' Is the Best Album Ever, and They Might Be Right

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2022

  "Colder Streams is, by far, the best record that has ever been made by anyone. Ever." So wrote the late, beloved Dallas Good of the Sadies...

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  Steve Lacy's Breakup Album 'Gemini Rights' Is in a League of Its Own

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2022

  Following in the tradition of many greats before him, Steve Lacy's latest effort is the lemonade squeezed from a sour relationship split. T...

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  Jack White Keeps Pushing the Envelope on 'Entering Heaven Alive'

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2022

  Anyone who has learned guitar at any point in the past couple of decades has probably fumbled their way through a Jack White riff at some p...

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  Lizzo Is 'Special,' Though the Music Isn't Always

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2022

  The music video for "About Damn Time," the infectious and glimmering lead single from Lizzo's fourth studio album, Special, opens on a grou...

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  'Slingshot' Launches Winnipeg's JayWood into New Territory

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2022

  On "YGBO," an interlude that appears late on JayWood's sophomore album Slingshot, the Winnipegger repeatedly shouts a line that, on its own...

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  Interpol Remain Locked in the Same Groove on 'The Other Side of Make-Believe'

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2022

  For more than a decade, Interpol have been stuck in a sort of medium mood. Unable to live up to the hype of their classic debut, 2002's Tur...

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  black midi Burn Bright in 'Hellfire'

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2022

  Two travellers are stranded in the desert, searching for water and lost friends. When they stumble upon a mine led by a charismatic Captain...