Articles by Ashley Hampson

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  Make/Shift

  888

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2016

  Make/Shift is the moniker of Toronto artist/producer Paul Vroom, known mainly through his involvement with alt-pop band HIGHS, though this...

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  Moderat

  Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, May 23

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2016

  An absolutely packed venue greeted Moderat (the union of Apparat and Modeselektor) as the Berlin trio took the stage at Vancouver's Vogue T...

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  Adult Jazz

  Earrings Off!

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2016

  Following their critically acclaimed debut, Gist Is, Leeds-based quartet Adult Jazz made their way through the festival circuit, all the wh...

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  18+

  Collect

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2016

  Recorded collaboratively between the respective residences of 18+'s Justin (Berlin) and Samia (Honolulu), the duo's second album Collect —...

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  DVA

  Take It All EP

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2016

  A string of EPs mark the path of London's DVA since his first full-length release back in 2012, but while his new album shares the same dan...

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  Lucius

  The Imperial, Vancouver BC, May 10

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2016

  The warmth of the Imperial, its tasselled curtain backlit in pink and emblazoned with Lucius, welcomed the Brooklyn five-piece last night (...

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  Moderat

  III

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2016

  If it felt inevitable 12 years ago when Modeselektor (Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) joined their bass-heavy warble and quirk to the...

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  Bibio

  A Mineral Love

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2016

  The latest full-length from Stephen Wilkinson's Bibio moniker, A Mineral Love, is saturated in sounds from decades past, coming off as some...