Album Reviews

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  Past and Present Dance Hand-in-Hand on Ghostkeeper's 'Cîpayak Joy'

  PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2024

  Like a ghost, certain artists tend to stick around. Transformation is the name of the game in a fickle Canadian music market ...

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  Luna Li's 'When a Thought Grows Wings' Glows with Fearless Optimism

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2024

  Words fail us as often as they serve us. As we filter the world through our many feelings and sensations...

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  illuminati hotties Are All Grown Up on 'POWER'

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2024

  Keeping existential dread at bay has been an underlying current for illuminati hotties since day one. When it inevitably does rear ...

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  Spectral Wound's 'Songs of Blood and Mire' Is More Party Than Pain

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2024

  Spectral Wound want you to think they're scary. That's fine, they should — they're a black metal band. Hailing from Montreal...

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  Fontaines D.C. Pen an Unreliable Encyclopedia of 'Romance'

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2024

  Love is not patient or kind. It fails and boasts. It appears contorted, grim, armed, and it poisons the angered soul with swarming radon ...

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  WUT Claw Their Way to Victory on 'Mingling with the Thorns'

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2024

  WUT have always been tender but tough. The Vancouver trio — guitarist Kaity McWhinney, bassist Tracey Vath and drummer Lauren Smith ...

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  Justin Townes Earle's Posthumous 'All In: Unreleased & Rarities (The New West Years)' Is a Bittersweet Farewell

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2024

  Covering Fleetwood Mac's biggest hit is a tall order, even for a performer and interpreter as gifted as Justin Townes Earle...

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  Ravyn Lenae Looks at Life with a 'Bird's Eye' on Her Sterling Sophomore Album

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2024

  Two years after her debut album 'HYPNOS,' Ravyn Lenae returns with 'Bird's Eye.' Another smorgasbord of the fluttery falsettos, iridescent ...