Albums
Daikan – October Child
6.5/10 Remember all that really sad 90s music? Like, the kind of down-tempo thing that would play at The Bronze whenever Buffy was in a bad mood? Ok, picture that, but with trap drums. That’s […]
Hip Hop
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Young Barbara – Stay Fresh
3/10 Young Barbara attempts to make fun of the trap and mumble rap genres with his debut EP Stay Fresh. The problem with this is that these genres have already plunged head-first into utter ridiculousness […]
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AcidTrip Tamo – NaZaLee
8/10 It’s extremely rare for a song to pop into my head the day after only listening to it once. Such was the case with “Tribe,” the first track on AcidTrip Tamo’s latest release NaZaLee. […]
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Frase – F R n Z
9/10 Watching an artist you like evolve and grow is pretty cool. Watching that happen to an artist who happened to grow up in the same city as you is even cooler. F R n […]
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Grand Analog—Survival EP
9/10 Toronto-based hip hop band Grand Analog’s latest release Survival EP dropped in late January, 2018. Backed up by heavyweight guest vocals and crisp production, the EP oozes with a raw, soulful sound that takes us back […]
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Vicious 5150 -The One Who Two’d The Three
6/10 The early nineties were without a doubt the greatest years in hip hop. While Wu Tang Clan ran the East Coast game, laidback G-funk ruled in California. HazMat artist Vicious 5150 from Port Coquitlam, […]
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Mista Latex – Living Life
5.5/10 How many songs about fucking can you stuff onto one album? I’m not sure what the Guinness Book of World Records has to say on the subject, but I’m pretty sure Mista Latex just […]
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Fluffy Little Cowboys – No Angel
7/10 How do you determine what’s weird and not just subjective taste? Well, lucky for you, I am a specialist on the weird as I’m quite the weirdo myself. That being said, No Angel, a […]
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Haviah Mighty – Flower City
9/10 From the first bass drop on Haviah Mighty’s Flower City, I was hooked. The high-energy Brampton, Ontario-based rapper released the album in March, and it’s bursting with a powerful lyrical style and confidence. Backed […]
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Mellowtone – Broken Rooms
9/10 Mellowtone are a ‘trip-hop’ band founded in 2008 from Fribourg, Switzerland, a district that sits on the cultural divide between the French and German areas of the country. Like ‘trip-hop’ pioneers, Massive Attack, Mellowtone’s […]