Articles by Kyle Mullin

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  Red Pill

  Look What This World Did To Us

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2015

  Mello Music continues its winning streak with Red Pill's Look What This World Did To Us. The alt-rap label started the year off strong with...

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  Cityreal

  Prologue

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015

  Prologue, the new EP released by Vancouver rapper Cityreal, begins with faint drum taps that sound like a heart murmur. That haunting sonic...

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  Ron Sexsmith

  Carousel One

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2015

  Ron Sexsmith isn't exactly known for his sunny disposition. The pouty-faced, St. Catharines, Ontario-born troubadour left critics and fello...

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  Rapper Big Pooh

  Words Paint Pictures

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2015

  The ghosts of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and countless other wrongfully slain African Americans loom large on Words Paint P...

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  God Made Me Funky

  Funky Fly 'N Free

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2015

  God Made Me Funky's latest LP is simultaneously vintage and futuristic, as if the Toronto troop soundtracked a deliberately cheesy '80s sci...

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  Christina Martin

  It'll Be Alright

  PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2015

  Christina Martin may reside on the East Coast, but you'll swear she was raised on E Street after listening to her new LP. That's because It...

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  3:33

  White Room

  PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2015

  3:33's White Room begins with a reverberating, low-pitched whine that's surely meant to be menacing; after all, the noise act's Bandcamp pa...

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  Beans On Toast

  The Grand Scheme of Things

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2015

  On The Grand Scheme of Things, British folk-punk Jay McAllister both transcends and falls prey to his genre's biggest clichés. His sixth LP...