Alex's Staff Picks
Lorde's "What Was That" Embraces Her Melodramatic Strengths
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PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2025
It's not that that the psych folk of 'Solar Power' was bad, exactly, but Lorde's 2021 album didn't get its claws into me like 2017's...
Jimmie Kilpatrick's 'Jimmie' Is a Sweet, Scrappy Conversation with an Old Friend
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PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2025
Listening to Shotgun Jimmie has always felt like a conversation with a particularly witty, articulate friend — a perfect combination of...
Wet Leg Level Up with Punchy "catch these fists"
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PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2025
"Level up," Wet Leg vocalist Rhian Teasdale declares as the thundering groove of "catch these fists" bursts into its pummelling chorus. It's...
'Dan's Boogie' Offers a Beginner's Introduction to Destroyer
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PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2025
For much of his career, Vancouver songwriter Dan Bejar has been one of those musical chameleons — a Bowie or a Beck, whose arrangement...
Black Country, New Road Live Up to Their Promise on "For the Cold Country"
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PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2025
I've been intrigued and a little confused by the way Black Country, New Road's 2022 album 'Ants from Up the There' has been embraced as a...
Japanese Breakfast's 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' Sees Swooning Beauty in the Sorrow
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PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2025
The title is objectively cringe, and the two pre-release singles breezed past without making much of an impression — so I'm as surprised as...
Wares' Cassia Hardy Makes Edmonton Sound Just Like Heaven on "Empress"
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PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2025
Wares leader Cassia Hardy has released a solo single paying tribute to the Empress Ale House, an Edmonton pub and venue that shut down back...
jasmine.4.t and Phoebe Bridgers Offer an Effortless Exercise in Contrasts on "Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation"
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PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2025
Phoebe Bridgers announced plans to "take a massive step back" in 2024, and she's been true to her word — but she unassumingly emerged from...
