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Ducks Ltd.'s "The Main Thing" Is Effortless Pop Perfection
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PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2023
Ducks Ltd. make indie pop perfection sound practically effortless, and a couple years after the one-two punch of their Get Bleak EP and Mod...
Bibi Club Are All-Encompassing on "Le feu"
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PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2023
There's something all-encompassing about Bibi Club, the Montreal indie pop duo that shook me and my colleagues at a late-night Hillside set...
Caroline Polachek's "Dang" Is Both a Continuation and Counterpoint
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PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2023
This past February's Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is a glorious, life-affirming masterpiece, its unpredictable stylistic turns (trip-hop...
Mustafa Is Stripped Bare on "Name of God"
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PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2023
It's been over two years since Mustafa shared his debut When Smoke Rises and since then, there's been a gaping hole in Toronto's music scen...
Mannequin Pussy Are Crushed by a Crush on "I Don't Know You"
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PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2023
Back in August, Mannequin Pussy shared the bloodthirsty banger "I Got Heaven," an absolute ripper offset by an ascendant '90s pop chorus. T...
'the rest' Confirms boygenius as One of 2023's Defining Bands
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PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023
I have no clue how many concerts I've been to over the past 20-odd years of show-going, but I know exactly how many I've cried at: one. Tha...
Corb Lund Is a Hurtin' Albertan on the Weed-Gone-Wrong Anthem "Old Familiar Drunken Feeling"
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PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023
As someone whose modest instrumental skill all but evaporates in altered states, the tale of "herbal terrorism" Corb Lund tells on new sing...
hemlocke springs Is Radically Sincere on 'going...going...GONE!'
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PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023
As soon as I heard hemlocke springs yearningly screech "Secretly I'm aiming for a freedom that exceeds my expectations" on TikTok last year...