Articles by Craig Dunsmuir

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  Deep Dark United

  Fools!

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  After the sketches comes the first canvas. Having released the Zettel CD last year, a post-Fell Gang back from hiatus calling card of four-...

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  Marato

  Dirty Stories

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  With Dirty Stories, Ottawa's the Marato delivers two bands for the price of one (a condition not unlike North of America, when in the full...

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  Six Parts Seven

  Things Shaped In Passing

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Following the blueprint for the languid and mellow side of instrumental "rock that’s bored of rock” (let's keep "post-rock" dead and buried...

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  Spengler

  We Need A Miracle

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Like the scrawny black sheep younger cousin of sorts to Victoria's late Pigment Vehicle (but, understandably, with more of a generational k...

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  Stapleton

  On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Maybe it's just a mild affliction of the Kings Of Convenience syndrome (i.e. foreign accent makes otherwise questionable music listenable,...

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  Microphones

  The Glow, Pt. 2

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Head Microphone Phil Elvrum and his tight-knit coterie just keep refining the model set on his early self-released Know-Yr-Own bedroom tape...

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  Orange Glass

  Underwater Underground

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Moncton's pop underdogs return to form with an overall aesthetic that's less outright fuzzy than warmly hissy. Their songs are packed with...

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  V For Vendetta

  Beneath This Mask Another Mask

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Perhaps this full-length debut from Providence's newest heirs to the fractured rock throne is most noteworthy for its sense of pacing, plac...