reviews

Choose Your Own Adventure to Ascension with Jon Hopkins's 'RITUAL'

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2024

Jon Hopkins' music is filled with empathy and compassion, even if it often (consciously) struggles with maintaining composure...

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 ...

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...

'Strange Darling' Has One of the Year's Most Subtle, Staggering Performances

Directed by JT Mollner

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2024

JT Mollner's 'Strange Darling' understands and trusts lead Willa Fitzgerald to the point of sweaty, lip-licking ecstasy. The film lets her...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

We've Seen 'Between the Temples' Before

Directed by Nathan Silver

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2024

What's "between the temples"? The answer is relatively simple: the brain. And yet, that conclusion leads to an organ so complex and weird...