Articles by Ian Gormely

Troye Sivan, SOPHIE, Tirzah and Empress Of Represent the Future of Pop

Best of 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2018

While a whiff of nostalgia hung across the 2018 pop landscape, the past 12 months were nevertheless a banner year for forward-thinking pop...

The 1975 on Living on the Internet, New Album 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships,' and Why Another One's Coming Soon

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2018

A lot of artists can thank the internet for their career, but few embrace it as wholeheartedly as a total aesthetic as the 1975. From lead...

The 1975

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

Audacity is the 1975's bread and butter — no idea is too bold, no question too messy. So when word came that the English quartet were plann...

Microphones, Mount Eerie and Melancholy: The Career of Phil Elverum

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2018

In another life, Phil Elverum could have had Conor Oberst's career. A wunderkind recording wiz who made beguiling DIY recordings in the lat...

R.E.M.

R.E.M. at the BBC

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2018

By the early '90s, R.E.M. were one of the biggest bands in the world. Yet, even as 1991's Out of Time and 1992's Automatic For the People r...

Mitski

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, October 22

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2018

It was halfway through Mitski Miyawaki's sold out Toronto show that it happened — during "Townie," the rousing second track from her 2014 b...

Robyn

Honey

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2018

Eight years is a long time in pop music. At least two generations of would-be stars have come and gone since 2010, when Robyn released Body...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Phil Elverum, Mount Eerie and the Microphones

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2018

Phil Elverum is a DIY wunderkind who's made beguiling lo-fi recordings since the late '90s. But when fame came calling after the success of...