Album Reviews

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  Beth Gibbons Looks to a Lost Future on 'Lives Outgrown'

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2024

  Beth Gibbons is like a ghost. Probing the shadowy spaces of bereavement, her songs are articulated through weary quivers, moans and wails....

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  Billie Eilish's 'HIT ME HARD AND SOFT' Pulls No Punches

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2024

  In today's sound-bite-driven music landscape, releasing an album without singles is a swing that only the industry's heaviest hitters will...

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  Alana Yorke's 'Destroyer' Rises Above the Waves

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2024

  Eight years in the making, Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Alana Yorke's full-length debut album 'Destroyer' is an art-pop outpouring of ...

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  The Anti-Queens Up the Ante on 'Disenchanted'

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2024

  The Anti-Queens understand punk. Not just because they've been a Toronto underground mainstay for over a decade, or because their 2019 self...

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  of Montreal Are Still the Horniest Freaks at the Party on 'Lady on the Cusp'

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2024

  Over the span of 27 years, Kevin Barnes has released 20 albums and five EPs as of Montreal, nearly putting them in league with Guided by...

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  Kaia Kater's 'Strange Medicine' Is a Healing Epic

  PUBLISHED May 15, 2024

  Back in 2018, Kaia Kater's third album 'Grenades' sent a ripple through the folk and roots music world, earning her Polaris and Juno ...

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  Ghostly Kisses Do the Same, but Better on 'Darkroom'

  PUBLISHED May 14, 2024

  Heaven, Wait, Margaux Sauvé's ethereal 2022 debut as Ghostly Kisses, was a precocious if spotty album built from sparse electronic producti...

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  Bibi Club's Majestic 'Feu de garde' Is Intimately Grand

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2024

  Bibi Club's members, Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque, are a married couple who have a child together, and that familial...