Articles by Josiah Nelson
Zoon Transcends His Shoegaze Origins on Remarkable Debut 'Bleached Wavves'
PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2020
The opener on Zoon's debut album, Bleached Wavves, sounds like a familiar shoegaze prologue. Titled "Cloud Formations," it sounds like some...
Kenny Mason Chooses Experimentation over Hit-Chasing on 'Angelic Hoodrat'
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2020
Although Kenny Mason has been making music for over a decade, his late-2019 single, "Hit," seemed to formally establish him as a name to wa...
Midwife
Forever
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2020
Midwife's sophomore album, Forever, carries with it a sense of dark, elegiac mystery. Its album art shows what appears to be a ghostly set...
Addy
Eclipse
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2020
Since he started recording as Addy in 2017, Adam Watkins has defied categorization. His two EPs, re call and Rose Eyes, placed gliding, alt...
Andy Shauf
The Exchange, Regina SK, March 3
PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2020
Andy Shauf's homecoming was a little paradoxical. The last time he performed at the Exchange — fronting Foxwarren — he played alongside old...
Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker
Little Common Twist
PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2019
After two improvisational sessions together, free jazz drummer Charles Rumback and proficient folk artist Ryley Walker released an instrume...
Mappe Of
The Isle of Ailynn
PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2019
On Mappe Of's sophomore record, The Isle of Ailynn, Tom Meikle's predilection for the experimental comingles with his robust imagination, r...
Common Holly Wants to Be Sincere Without Being Open-Hearted on 'When I Say to You Black Lightning'
PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2019
Brigitte Naggar, who performs as Common Holly, doesn't want to give too much of herself away. Even her debut album, Playing House, a wheezi...
