Reviews
John Orpheus Brings His Globe-Hopping Story to Life on 'Saga King'
Published Jul 29, 2021
John Orpheus has combined his artistic vocations as both musical performer and author into the nuanced and eclectic album Saga King. It's in...
Album Reviews
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![Tush Keep Dance Floors Grooving from Afar on 'Fantast']()
ReviewsTush Keep Dance Floors Grooving from Afar on 'Fantast' Published Jul 28, 2021Tush have accumulated a well-earned reputation as one of Toronto's most incendiary groove machines. Originally surfacing from the city's fer...
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![Prince's 'Welcome 2 America' Is a Fantastic Album He Probably Wouldn't Want You to Hear]()
ReviewsPrince's 'Welcome 2 America' Is a Fantastic Album He Probably Wouldn't Want You to Hear Published Jul 27, 2021In the modern music landscape, few things are as polarizing as the posthumous release. Most of the time, unfinished music gets pieced togeth...
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![Bleachers Shakily Tries to Be the Boss on 'Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night']()
ReviewsBleachers Shakily Tries to Be the Boss on 'Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night' Published Jul 27, 2021The trail of desire that leads to Jack Antonoff, writer and producer of some of the biggest pop albums released within the past decade, is a...
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![The Halluci Nation Turn Anti-Colonialism into a Celebratory Dance Party for 'One More Saturday Night']()
ReviewsThe Halluci Nation Turn Anti-Colonialism into a Celebratory Dance Party for 'One More Saturday Night' Published Jul 26, 2021Formalizing the declaration of A Tribe Called Red's 2016 album We Are the Halluci Nation by adopting it as their new name, the Halluci Natio...
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![Leon Bridges' 'Gold-Diggers Sound' Is Informed by the Past but Styled for the Now]()
ReviewsLeon Bridges' 'Gold-Diggers Sound' Is Informed by the Past but Styled for the Now Published Jul 23, 2021Somewhere between the 10 p.m. coffees and 10 a.m. tequilas, Leon Bridges found a groove. Recorded during two years' worth of all-night jam s...
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![Erez Zobary Blossoms into Herself on 'To Bloom']()
ReviewsErez Zobary Blossoms into Herself on 'To Bloom' Published Jul 22, 2021For Toronto's Erez Zobary, making music has long been about healing. Working through debilitating vocal nodules and stage fright has all bee...
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![Emma-Jean Thackray's 'Yellow' Is Too Exciting to be Merely Branded 'Jazz Fusion']()
ReviewsEmma-Jean Thackray's 'Yellow' Is Too Exciting to be Merely Branded "Jazz Fusion" Published Jul 21, 2021One hesitates to pin Yellow, Emma-Jean Thackray's official debut full-length, down with a reductive label such as "jazz fusion." The genre n...
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![Pop Smoke's Fans Won't Lose 'Faith' Despite Uneven New Posthumous Album]()
ReviewsPop Smoke's Fans Won't Lose 'Faith' Despite Uneven New Posthumous Album Published Jul 20, 2021The posthumous album has sadly been a staple in hip-hop for years, occasionally resulting in legacy-cementing projects like J Dilla's immacu...
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![Descendents Display 40 Years of Punk Dominance on '9th & Walnut']()
ReviewsDescendents Display 40 Years of Punk Dominance on '9th & Walnut' Published Jul 20, 2021It's a shame that Descendents put off finishing 9th & Walnut for so long, as an album this focused and snotty would have surely launched a k...
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![Darkside's 'Spiral' Mourns the End of the World — and Celebrates What We Still Have Left]()
ReviewsDarkside's 'Spiral' Mourns the End of the World — and Celebrates What We Still Have Left Published Jul 19, 2021A funny thing happened on the way to Darkside's return from hiatus. After all, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington announced that the band was...
