Album Reviews

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  John Orpheus Brings His Globe-Hopping Story to Life on 'Saga King'

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2021

  John Orpheus has combined his artistic vocations as both musical performer and author into the nuanced and eclectic album Saga King. It's i...

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  Tush Keep Dance Floors Grooving from Afar on 'Fantast'

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2021

  Tush have accumulated a well-earned reputation as one of Toronto's most incendiary groove machines. Originally surfacing from the city's fe...

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  Bleachers Shakily Tries to Be the Boss on 'Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night'

  PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2021

  The trail of desire that leads to Jack Antonoff, writer and producer of some of the biggest pop albums released within the past decade, is...

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  Prince's 'Welcome 2 America' Is a Fantastic Album He Probably Wouldn't Want You to Hear

  PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2021

  In the modern music landscape, few things are as polarizing as the posthumous release. Most of the time, unfinished music gets pieced toget...

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  The Halluci Nation Turn Anti-Colonialism into a Celebratory Dance Party for 'One More Saturday Night'

  PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2021

  Formalizing the declaration of A Tribe Called Red's 2016 album We Are the Halluci Nation by adopting it as their new name, the Halluci Nati...

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  Leon Bridges' 'Gold-Diggers Sound' Is Informed by the Past but Styled for the Now

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2021

  Somewhere between the 10 p.m. coffees and 10 a.m. tequilas, Leon Bridges found a groove. Recorded during two years' worth of all-night jam...

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  Erez Zobary Blossoms into Herself on 'To Bloom'

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2021

  For Toronto's Erez Zobary, making music has long been about healing. Working through debilitating vocal nodules and stage fright has all be...

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  Emma-Jean Thackray's 'Yellow' Is Too Exciting to be Merely Branded "Jazz Fusion"

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2021

  One hesitates to pin Yellow, Emma-Jean Thackray's official debut full-length, down with a reductive label such as "jazz fusion." The genre...