Album Reviews

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  Corb Lund Shines Light on Obscure Country Corners on 'Songs My Friends Wrote'

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2022

  Corb Lund has earned his place among the Canadian greats. Having been born and raised in the small town of Taber, AB, Lund successfully lev...

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  Kelly Lee Owens's Voice Cuts Through the Commotion on 'LP.8'

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2022

  "This is an emergency. This is a wake-up call," Kelly Lee Owens declares calmly on LP.8 over harsh industrial noise amid frantic, phantasma...

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  Tomberlin's Truth Is Gospel on 'i don't know who needs to hear this…'

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2022

  While characteristically unassuming on the surface, i don't know who needs to hear this… is quietly assured in the fact that someone does n...

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  Girlpool Plunge into the Personal on 'Forgiveness'

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2022

  "You leave me crying in the fucking rain / I want you." These lines are flung at the listener upon entering Girlpool's self-titled EP that,...

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  Pusha T and Pharrell Shine on 'It's Almost Dry' — but It's a Shame About Ye

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2022

  The tale of Terrence Thornton a.k.a. Pusha T's rap career has two clear and distinct chapters.  The first was his time as one half of Clips...

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  Samantha Savage Smith's 'Fake Nice' Shows Real Growth

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2022

  On her third album, Calgary's Samantha Savage Smith digs into the liminal space between inner doubts and outer life. Wrapped up in swirling...

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  Georgia Harmer Does Her Musical Lineage Proud on 'Stay in Touch'

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2022

  You don't get to choose your family, but Georgia Harmer leans into the mythos of her musical genealogy with the kind of effortless candour...

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  Spiritualized's 'Everything Was Beautiful' Lives Up to Its Name

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2022

  Spiritualized fans were likely saddened when bandleader J. Spaceman (a.k.a. Jason Pierce) revealed that 2018's And Nothing Hurt might be th...