Album Reviews

• 

  Jessie Ware Takes a Glamorous Victory Lap on 'That! Feels Good!'

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2023

  A handful of albums came out at exactly the right time in 2020. Though the overplayed hand of the "pandemic album" can be seldom smacked aw...

• 

  Harrison Pushes Beyond the Material World on 'Birds, Bees, the Clouds & the Trees'

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2023

  Harrison's third full length introduces itself with a cloud of vinyl crackle and hiss — a language anyone who's dropped the needle on the o...

• 

  Tunic Find New Facets of Sound on 'Wrong Dream'

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2023

  Winnipeg art punks Tunic cut some of the genre's most heart-pounding and apocalyptic soundscapes; the screams of vocalist David Schellenber...

• 

  Zoon's 'Bekka Ma'iingan' Is a Captivating Force

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2023

  Growing up in the small town of Selkirk, Manitoba, located just north of Winnipeg, was a hostile environment for Daniel Monkman. They spent...

• 

  Single Mothers Shapeshift Once Again on 'Roy'

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2023

  Everybody has that friend you speak to once a year: You were inseparable once, but then you drifted and now only keep contact through the a...

• 

  ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT are Time Travellers on 'Darling the Dawn'

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2023

  While the Internet's proclivity for describing spaces as 'liminal' has reached its stultifying peak, "Darling the Dawn" — the debut long pl...

• 

  Bestfriend Leave It All Behind on 'places i've left'

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2023

  It seems like 2023 is the year of the anxious and angsty millennial (and Gen Z cusp?) album. From Paramore's This Is Why to boygenius' the...

• 

  William Prince Sounds Larger Than Life on 'Stand in the Joy'

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2023

  The perfected sonic palette on William Prince's latest record, Stand in the Joy, rests in the careful mix of his deep, gentle baritone with...