reviews
'Have You Got It Yet?' Can't Solve the Mystery of Syd Barrett, but It's a Noble Attempt
Directed by Storm Thorgerson and Roddy Bogawa
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
"[Syd's] the perfect god, you see. A god must be killed and eaten. But then he must be reborn." — Peter Whitehead Syd Barrett (real name R...
Buck Meek Climbs Higher on 'Haunted Mountain'
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
Since encountering Adrianne Lenker in 2014, Buck Meek has been a quietly essential half of the yin/twang relationship at the heart of Big T...
myst milano. Forges Through the Fakery on 'Beyond the Uncanny Valley'
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
"I offer Beyond the Uncanny Valley as a working anthology of Black electronic music across generational, geographical and genre lines," Tor...
Land of Talk Are Mesmerizing on the Anti-Virtuosic "Your Beautiful Self"
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PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
I was deeply hungover the first time I saw Land of Talk live. It was a Sunday and Lizzie Powell was playing in the mid-afternoon at Red Pap...
RAAHiiM Sets Himself Apart on 'BUT IF iiM HONEST'
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PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
If RAAHiiM's third LP BUT IF iiM HONEST only gave us "Energy," that would be enough for me. The punchy synths and funky bassline carry a "P...
The Armed Are Everything at Once on 'Perfect Saviours'
PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2023
The Armed are a band who, in the past, have been a lot of things at once: ambiguous, anonymous, hyperbolic and wholly mysterious. That is,...
Billy Bragg Destroys Oliver Anthony (Empathetically) on "Rich Men Earning North of a Million"
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PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2023
As the planet burns and the cost-of-living crisis gets worse by the day, viral country artist Oliver Anthony has scored chart-topping hit b...
The National Brought Stadium Grandeur to Toronto, While Patti Smith and U.S. Girls Cut Deep
Budweiser Stage, August 20
PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2023
"I wanna say hi to my kids, who are just over there," U.S. Girls' Meg Remy said, pointing to her twins after opening her Budweiser Stage se...