Articles by Daniel Sylvester

Helado Negro

This Is How You Smile

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2019

This is How You Smile, the sixth full-length from Roberto Carlos Lange (aka Helado Negro), is a memory of an album — hazy, breezy and sligh...

K Á R Y Y N

THE QUANTA SERIES

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2019

As anyone who has heard the six singles K Á R Y Y N released in anticipation of her debut knows, there's no possible way THE QUANTA SERIES...

James Yorkston

The Route to the Harmonium

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2019

Since the release of his criminally overlooked debut in 2002, Moving Up Country, James Yorkston has always written music in reaction to his...

Ben Shemie

A Skeleton

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2019

As vocalist and guitarist for Montreal quartet Suuns, Ben Shemie has helped provide Canada with one of the most consistently solid experime...

Jessica Pratt Hasn't Changed on 'Quiet Signs,' and Why Should She?

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2019

On her new album Quiet Signs, it seems that Jessica Pratt has found inspiration by entering her "Jessica Pratt" phase. She's not incorporat...

Jessica Pratt

Quiet Signs

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2019

As a musician, Jessica Pratt is an enigma. She's a thirtysomething, slight folk singer who grew up on '80s cowpunk like X and the Gun Club....

Brian Wilson / Beat Root Revival

TD Place Arena, Ottawa ON, November 23

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2018

Though Brian Wilson brought his "Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour" to Ottawa in 2016 , the 76-year-old musician decided to return to...

Art Brut

Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2018

Art Brut may not be musical savants, but they are undeniably a clever bunch. On the band's fifth LP, Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!, the...