Articles by Chris Whibbs

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  Candy Bars

  On Cutting Ti-Gers in Half and Understanding Narra

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Ah, verbiage. A professor of mine once wrote in a peer’s paper, loosely: "By cutting out the extra words this paper could have been seven p...

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  Darling Arms

  All the Ghosts

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  This debut EP of Christina Frances, formerly of Montreal’s One Candle Power, has much in the way of immediacy and rawness, but, as with all...

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  Espers

  Espers II

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  There are many different names for this kind of music, yet all of them seem to end in folk. Call it psych-folk, freak folk, neo-folk, folk-...

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  Orillia Opry

  Pandion Haliaetus

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Whether the duo of Daniel Noble and Emma Baxter are from Orillia, ON is a minor mystery, but they sure do take a cue from the opry side of...

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  Field Register

  Tire & Caster

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  While this Montreal band’s last album was a gorgeous piece of slow burning melancholy, this effort is cut from an entirely different piece...

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  Futureheads

  News and Tributes

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  The most telling part of this intense band’s ear-searing debut was the very last sentence of "Shut Up!” It came from a band that had given...

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  Metallic Falcons

  Desert Doughnuts

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Looking at the contributors to this album, which includes Antony, Jana Hunter and Devendra Banhart, you’d be inclined to include this duo w...

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  Rebelski

  Thanks for the Thoughts

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Issued simultaneously with Stickers on Keys, this effort works with the same electronic atmospherics and pop-based ambience of that record,...