Articles by EJ Kneifel

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  Anemone

  Beat My Distance

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2019

  It's not often that an album begins with closure, but Beat My Distance starts in solitude, all broken up. "You're on your own from now on,"...

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  Andy Shauf

  Theatre Rialto, Montreal QC, February 7

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2019

  Yellow beams lit Andy Shauf from behind, holding his back as he bobbed. His music has always been the kind of cool that takes its sweet tim...

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  Lala Lala

  Casa del Popolo, Montreal QC, January 29

  PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2019

  Lillie West recently sheared her own hair to look more like an elf, but Tuesday's spell was cast by more than just her trembling bangs. Whe...

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  Tiny Ruins

  Olympic Girls

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2019

  Olympic Girls begins in long weekend exhilaration, "stirring / shaking / all of us waking." It drips and it blinds you, its tempo flaring l...

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  Juan Wauters

  La Onda de Juan Pablo

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2019

  Juan Wauters loves fruit — melons, mangoes, oranges, fans bring him bananas on tour. On La Onda de Juan Pablo, his first album since 2015 a...

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  Noname

  Theatre Corona, Montreal QC, January 4

  PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2019

  Noname hopped behind her beaming mouth and her bounding voice, her lips dodging every stutter and break. She darted right through the metic...

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  Twist

  Distancing

  PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2018

  Laura Hermiston is on her way somewhere. She has California's coast on the brain — the guitars definitely got too much sun — but her sophom...

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  Tanukichan

  M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 17

  PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2018

  Hannah Van Loon's bassist, Matthew Horton, had a lot to say. When she plunged to the ground between songs to adjust her guitar, he goofily...