Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  Mavis Staples

  If All I Was Was Black

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2017

  Throughout her illustrious 48-year solo career, Mavis Staples has never stayed musically stagnant, melding her radiant sound with some of t...

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  Langhorne Slim

  Lost at Last Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2017

  Folk-based music has always been infatuated with the days of yore: Bob Dylan started his career indebted to Woody Guthrie; a more modern ex...

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  James Holden and the Animal Spirits

  The Animal Spirits

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2017

  When James Holden released his superb 2013 LP The Inheritors, critics likened his synthetic psychedelia to first-wave electronic experiment...

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  Gun Outfit

  Out of Range

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2017

  Listening to "Ontological Intercourse," the opening track from Gun Outfit's fifth LP, Out of Range, it's apparent that the L.A.-via-Olympia...

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  Bibio

  Phantom Brickworks

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2017

  Quickly following up last year's well-received A Mineral Love, Stephen Wilkinson (aka Bibio) becomes something of a medium as he channels h...

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  Max Richter

  Henry May Long / Black Mirror: Nosedive / Taboo

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2017

  Although Max Richter has been scoring film for about just as long as he's been releasing LPs, it wasn't until the release of his touching m...

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  The Deep Dark Woods

  Yarrow

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2017

  Yarrow, the first album from the Deep Dark Woods since 2013, shows the trad-folk band feeling positively reenergized yet tempered. After ta...

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  Scott Thompson

  Yuk Yuk's, Ottawa ON, October 19

  PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2017

  On the precipice of recording his first standup album, Scott Thompson treated the Thursday night Ottawa audience to a fully formed and fles...