With All Due Respect
Blueprint for Destiny
By Eric Hill

This Montreal duo lurk behind their twilight imagery and surprisingly broad style on this second expanded release. Perhaps due to geographic proximity I’m reminded of Ghislain Poirier, whose spare, early 12k releases gave way to unorthodox hip-hop production a few years later. WADR compress the timeframe and squish smoky machinery-hop (“Plateau” with guest vocals by Myriam Bois) next to dub-y micro-house (“CCTV”) next to jittery, transistor-infected reggae (“Montreal Protocol”). The works are granted a turquoise hard gleam by producer Yahik Daunais, who gives the decay as much detail as the notes. It’s an ambitious and intriguing portrait of an after-hours landscape where steam and neon bleed all markers of identity together. For all its genre-hopping, it mistreats none of them and masters several. (Independent)
Mike Shannon - Memory Tree
Throw this in your car stereo for a late night drive down a long road in the brush. The mood has been set for this, Mike Shannon’s third full-length artist album, Memory Tree. That is, if you’re scouring the hills for roots techno that’s soft, mellow and glitchy. This record should have a p ...Read More
Stereo Image - S/T
Just before Hamilton’s Junior Boys blew up in 2004 with their debut, Last Exit, co-founding member Johnny Dark left the group to focus on his own project. He found a soul mate in Nat Rabb, better known as one-man electro show San Serac, and the pair became Stereo Image. It’s taken a few years ...Read More
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Alva Noto - Unitxt
Bitcrush - Shimmer and Fade
Bob Sinclair / Various - Live at the Playboy Mansion
Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Build Buildings - Ceiling Lights From Street
Charles Webster / Various - Defected Presents Charles Webster
Chemical Brothers - Brotherhood
Cory Allen - The Fourth Way
Cuizinier / Various - Pour Les Filles, Volume III
Eliot Lipp - The Outside
ElodieO - Stubborn
Genre Peak - Preternatural
GU Mixed: 3John Digweed / Various - Transitions Vol.4
Koushik - Out My Window
Luciano / Various - Fabric 41
Osborn - Osborn
Pan/Tone - Skip The Foreplay
Plump DJs - Headthrash
Ragga Twins - Ragga Twins Step Out
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
Shed - Shedding the Past
Simian Mobile Disco / Various - Fabriclive.41
Stephan Grondin / Various - P1 Parking Compilation Vol. 1
Steve Bug / Various - Bugnology 3
Sub-ID - BFF
Taub - Bedtime Stories
Telepathique / Various - Last Time on Earth
Tussle - Cream Cuts
Various - GU Mixed: 3
Grizzly Bear - Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC October 14
Before the release of 2009's Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear stood at a career watershed of sorts. Critical darlings without much mainstream success, they could very well have continued in the direction set with 2007's Friend EP and become perennial indie overachievers, in the vein of the Li... Full Review
Hostage Life - Centre Of The Universe
It's unfortunate the words "maturity" and "growth" are stigmas in the world of punk rock. They would be the perfect descriptors for Toronto, ON-based Hostage Life's tertiary release. Maintaining the adage that a band never realize their true potential until their third album, the quintet prove thems... Full Review
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Dir. by Paul Weitz
In an interesting twist of Hollywood fate, Chris and Paul Weitz have entered the final stretch of 2009 each in control of a major vampire franchise built from the pages of popular young adult fiction.

From one half of the brotherly team who brought us American Pie and About ... Full Review
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