Articles by Amanda Ash

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  Hills Like White Elephants

  Himalaya

  PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2008

  If you crossed Do Make Say Think’s knack for instrumental outbursts with the Acorn’s soothing melodies, what you’d end up with is an album...

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  Kate Maki

  On High

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

  Throughout On High, Kate Maki’s gentle, delicate voice is carried from afar, from a distant land where love and passion rule over apathy. F...

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  Hinterland

  Pan Pan Medico

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2008

  From somewhere beneath the schizophrenic synthesisers and taut rhythms comes a need to escape, a desire to break away from monotonous, mate...

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  Steve Dawson

  Waiting For The Lights To Come Up

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2008

  For Steve Dawson, learning the pedal steel couldn’t have been more exciting. With this newfound instrument, Vancouver’s folk/blues guru chu...

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  Brian Byrne

  Tailor Made

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2008

  If Bon Jovi had a twin, it would be Brian Byrne. Minus the ’80s hair metal remnants and sticky hairspray love, Tailor Made is what you’d he...

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  Luke Doucet & the White Falcon

  Blood's Too Rich

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2008

  For a guy like Luke Doucet, anything goes. Want some melancholy folk laced with hopeful blues reverbs? He's got it. Or some country grunge...

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  Katie Moore

  Only Thing Worse

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

  After listening to Katie Moore’s record, you’d think the curly-haired nymph roots herself in Alberta’s snowy forests, that she finds solace...

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  James Murdoch

  In Transit

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

  We all know Hawksley Workman has the Midas touch, but before this producer extraordinaire laid hands on James Murdoch’s fourth album, it wa...