Articles by Emily Zimmerman

Alejandra Ribera

This Island

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

Alejandra Ribera's new album, This Island, sounds distinctly different from her last two releases. She's still got that torchy-jazzy-folk v...

Tasseomancy at the 24-Hour Cosmic Laundromat, Contemplating 'Do Easy'

PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2016

Sometimes you have to get away from home to find out who you are. Toronto dream-folk band Tasseomancy's last album, 2015's Palm Wine Revisi...

Tommy Hawkins

Amy

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2016

A collaboration from Toronto singer/songwriters Hawksley Workman and Thomas D'Arcy, Tommy Hawkins' Amy sounds like an excellent first draft...

Shirley Collins

Lodestar

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2016

Being a song catcher is it's own art, different from being a songwriter, but quite as necessary. Shirley Collins' fifties and sixties recor...

Tasseomancy

Do Easy

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2016

If Tasseomancy's last album, 2015's Palm Wine Revisited, was a lush and mysterious landscape, their latest work focuses in on a much smalle...

The Silver Hearts

Golden Favourites

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2016

Golden Favourites, the first studio album by Peterborough, ON's the Silver Hearts in over a decade, serves as an excellent reintroduction t...

Lindy Vopnfjörd

Lindy Vopnfjörd

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2016

For his fourth album, Manitoba-born singer/songwriter Lindy Vopnfjörd has recorded a stripped down, but catchy and lyrically complex song c...

The Dean Ween Group

The Deaner Album

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2016

Going from funk to rock to jazz and back again, the first album from Dean Ween's eponymous solo project is a fun listen. Genre-hopping all...