Articles by Jazz Monroe
Sean Nicholas Savage
Bermuda Waterfall
PUBLISHED May 9, 2014
Riding high after overlooked classic Flamingo, Sean Nicholas Savage returned in 2013 with Other Life, an enjoyably ragtag prayerbook for th...
Neutral Milk Hotel
Kool Haus, Toronto ON, January 19
PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2014
Ten minutes after Neutral Milk Hotel left the stage, a semblance of normality returned to conversation, but there remained a stunned qualit...
Exclaim!'s 2013 in Lists:
5 Tech-Weary Albums
PUBLISHED Dec 27, 2013
When the world starts to spin faster, it helps to dig in heels. Throughout 2013 — a generation past the post-millennial tension of OK...
These New Puritans
Quiet Insight
PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2013
Jack Barnett may look shy and speak in shy sentences, but don't let that fool you: he really is shy. The singer has an uncanny ability to s...
Jon Hopkins
The Hoxton, Toronto ON, November 21
PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2013
Jon Hopkins is reassuringly goofy. He grins wide and proud after each song. His skinny arms dangle from shoulders that could barely support...
Future Islands
Drake Hotel, Toronto ON, November 10
PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013
Toward the end of Future Islands' sold-out show, there was spied a dancing couple in unwieldy winter fleeces, twirling and gliding over the...
These New Puritans
Field of Reeds
PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2013
In 2010, second record Hidden elevated These New Puritans from UK curiosities to burgeoning national treasures. Somehow timeless yet unmist...
Los Campesinos!
No Blues
PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2013
Latest effort No Blues once again finds Los Campesinos! riding their hearts into battle, returning smarter and stronger, if a little bloodi...
