reviews

Badge Epoque Ensemble Break Down the Essentials on 'Air, Light & Harmony'

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

What's the next step after cutting your most accomplished effort to date? For Badge Époque Ensemble, the horizon beyond last year's Clouds...

Bry Webb's 'Run with Me' Is Both Conclusion and Rebirth

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

Sometimes people disappear gradually. Archival evidence of their being remains, standing in for their actual presence, but when (or if) the...

The Virgin Suicides

Sofia Coppola

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

There's a voyeuristic narrative device in The Virgin Suicides that divides along gender. On one hand are five sisters whose fate is pretty...

bar italia Are Out for Blood on 'The Twits'

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

Not content with only releasing their nervy Matador debut Tracey Denim this year, bar italia venture into fuzzy, clanging britpop on their...

Hotline TNT Defy Space and Time on 'Cartwheel'

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

How did Wisconsin-born Will Anderson go from making grunge-pop in Vancouver to shoegaze-adjacent rock in Brooklyn while signing with a tast...

Flyte Are Light as a Feather on their Self-Titled Third Album

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PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

Listening to this Flyte record on a drizzly autumn day, as feels intended, casts a warm glow across the room. Like the crackling embers of...

Marnie Stern Returns Guitars Blazing on 'The Comeback Kid'

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

Marnie Stern spent the better part of a decade serving as a beacon of exuberance, vigour and complexity in rock music. Not content to rely...

'Fingernails' Can't Sink Its Claws into Its Compelling Premise

Directed by Christos Nikou

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

In Christos Nikou's latest film, the concept of mind over heart is pushed to its limits. Creating a world not dissimilar to ours, Nikou pos...