reviews
Drake and the All Canadian North Stars Pulled Out All the Stops to Honour Toronto's Hip-Hop and R&B History
History, July 28
PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2022
OVO Fest seems like an insidious inside joke between Drake and the City of Toronto to see how many days each year they can convince Toronto...
SUUNS' Ben Shemie Swaps Cold Synths for Warm Strings on 'Desiderata'
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2022
Since 2017, SUUNS leader Ben Shemie has been forging his own solo path, building on his band's experimental rock approach but with a deeper...
Patrick Holland Finds a New Voice Under an Old Name on 'You're the Boss'
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2022
Previously known as Project Pablo — purveyor of reliably solid, jazz-inflected ambient house tracks — Patrick Holland began releasing music...
Tallies Craft a Vision of Dream Pop All Their Own on 'Patina'
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2022
Upon first impression, it would be easy to dismiss Tallies' sophomore album Patina for leaning a little too hard into early '90s 4AD cospla...
Hillside 2022 Warmed Hearts, Even During a Rainstorm
PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2022
Hillside returned to in-person programming for its 2022 edition with scorching, relentless heat and a festival-dismantling thunderstorm in...
Kiwi Jr. Kept Ottawa Cool Amid a Scorching Summer Heatwave
Club SAW, July 23
PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2022
In what seemed to be a perpetually rescheduled Ottawa tour date (which, at one point, had them opening for '90s indie supergroup TUNS), Kiw...
ODESZA Dance Themselves Clean on 'The Last Goodbye'
PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2022
After five years, the icosahedron is ready to descend one more time, but is there ever really a last goodbye? If you're asking Seattle-base...
WAKE Reimagine What Heavy Music Means on 'Thought Form Descent'
PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2022
WAKE have become an institution in Canadian heavy music. Starting out as an extremely raw grindcore band on 2014's False, then becoming a p...