Articles by Chuck Molgat

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  Ashtray Boy

  The Euro

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Ashtray Boy’s laidback, at times jazzy indie pop goes even more international than usual on this clearinghouse effort, featuring not-quite-...

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  Amer Diab

  The Year of the Apology

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  If Toronto guitarist/vocalist Amer Diab has anything to apologise for it has to do with his cooptation of the late Robert Palmer’s aestheti...

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  Katrina and the Waves

  The Original Recordings 1983-1984

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Folks still trying to get over the fact "Walking on Sunshine” didn’t appear on the Hi Fidelity soundtrack have been issued a reprieve in th...

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  Crash Test Dummies

  Puss ‘N' Boots

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  Crash Test Dummies frogman Brad Roberts rallies the troops once more for a set of blue-eyed soul that by and large walks the same swagger a...

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  Parkas

  Now This Is Fighting

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  Way less twee than any of their new label-mates, London, Ontario’s Parkas deliver the sort of debut full-length effort that anyone who has...

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  Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham

  Sonic Souvenirs

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  Not since his days in Galaxie 500 has Dean Wareham sounded so psychedelically lethargic as he does here alongside Luna band-mate Britta Phi...

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  Rhinos

  Year of the Rhinos

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  The Rhinos are from Sweden, which you can sort of tell by the way vocalist and Huey Lewis look-alike Leif Svennson over-pronounces all the...

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  Various

  Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  Tribute albums are, by their very nature, uneven, typically mediocre affairs. Even the solid, most consistent ones only tend to earn that d...