
MAUVE. – Branches
7/10 I’ll be brutally honest; as I write this review, I’m listening to something else. It’s not that the three-song, 12-minute, independently released EP Branches from Scottish trio MAUVE. isn’t excellent – it is! But […]
7/10 I’ll be brutally honest; as I write this review, I’m listening to something else. It’s not that the three-song, 12-minute, independently released EP Branches from Scottish trio MAUVE. isn’t excellent – it is! But […]
8/10 Straight out of stick figure land comes the aesthetically dissonant Bucky Cromwell… But don’t let his blunt imagery fool you. This book is nothing like its cover! Cromwell’s debut album Lie$ gracefully bridges the […]
6/10 Straight from the dark, icy shores of the Gulf of Bothnia, behold an epic collection of anthemic, riff-driven hard rock from Oulu, Finland newcomers Green Straw Machine! Their debut full-length album Ultimate Threshold, released […]
90s score: 8/10 2021 score: 6/10 It seems only appropriate that the very last major studio album released in the 1990s was a rap album. Rap exploded in popularity during the late ’80s and early […]
9/10 Montreal’s own The Brooks were once called the “best kept funk secret in town” by La Presse; four years later, hot off the release of their second full-length album, it’s hard to disagree. Any […]
2/10 One of the great qualities a developing artist can display is a mix of self-criticism and restraint. Self-criticism is realizing “this is not very good,” and then practicing more. Restraint is thinking “other people […]
7/10 After releasing a string of EPs and singles between 2014 and 2019, Toronto post-punk trio Bike Thiefs have pulled off the impressive feat of signing to Stomp Records and releasing their début full-length album […]
8/10 Coming out of left field through a peaceful intro of chirping birds is classic British punk band The Damned, with a fresh and refreshing EP! Out since October 16, 2020, The Rockfield Files delivers […]
8/10 Toronto singer-songwriter Sean Dineley’s sophomore release, Still Bummed, felt just right with golden light and fall colours peeking through my window. Call it “October bias” if you like, but I was taken aback when […]
8.5/10 Something I always love is when a piece of music surpasses my first impression and earns itself a spot in my ever-changing rotation. These Curious Thoughts, a cross-Atlantic songwriting duo made up of Detroiter […]
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