Reviews
Sean Nicholas Savage Bermuda Waterfall
Published May 09, 2014
Riding high after overlooked classic Flamingo, Sean Nicholas Savage returned in 2013 with Other Life, an enjoyably ragtag prayerbook for the...
Articles By Jazz Monroe
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ReviewsNeutral Milk Hotel Kool Haus, Toronto ON, January 19 Published Jan 20, 2014Ten minutes after Neutral Milk Hotel left the stage, a semblance of normality returned to conversation, but there remained a stunned quality...
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NewsExclaim!'s 2013 in Lists: 5 Tech-Weary Albums Published Dec 27, 2013When the world starts to spin faster, it helps to dig in heels. Throughout 2013 — a generation past the post-millennial tension of OK...
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FeaturesThese New Puritans Quiet Insight Published Dec 05, 2013Jack Barnett may look shy and speak in shy sentences, but don't let that fool you: he really is shy. The singer has an uncanny ability to sa...
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ReviewsJon Hopkins The Hoxton, Toronto ON, November 21 Published Nov 22, 2013Jon Hopkins is reassuringly goofy. He grins wide and proud after each song. His skinny arms dangle from shoulders that could barely support...
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ReviewsFuture Islands Drake Hotel, Toronto ON, November 10 Published Nov 11, 2013Toward the end of Future Islands' sold-out show, there was spied a dancing couple in unwieldy winter fleeces, twirling and gliding over the...
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ReviewsThese New Puritans Field of Reeds Published Nov 05, 2013In 2010, second record Hidden elevated These New Puritans from UK curiosities to burgeoning national treasures. Somehow timeless yet unmista...
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ReviewsLos Campesinos! No Blues Published Nov 04, 2013Latest effort No Blues once again finds Los Campesinos! riding their hearts into battle, returning smarter and stronger, if a little bloodie...
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ReviewsPhèdre 35 Strachan, Toronto ON, November 2 Published Nov 03, 2013For those unfamiliar, 35 Strachan is an artist-friendly warehouse tucked between makeshift bridges and railway lines down by the Toronto doc...
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ReviewsUnknown Mortal Orchestra Blue Record Published Oct 29, 2013It's likely that close listeners of II, a home blend of blue funk and psychedelia, had already diagnosed Ruban Nielson's psychological ills....
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ReviewsJenny Hval Rivoli, Toronto ON, September 27 Published Sep 28, 2013Joined by two frowning men in sensible shirts, Jenny Hval took the Rivoli stage to modest applause. The crowd was sparse, but comfortably so...
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ReviewsDeerhunter Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, September 12 Published Sep 13, 2013Latecomers to the Phoenix Concert Theatre for Deerhunter's highly anticipated and very sold-out return met a bizarre spectacle. Support act...
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ReviewsKing Krule Wrongbar, Toronto ON, September 11 Published Sep 12, 2013Competing with Dirty Beaches for tonight's Toronto concertgoers, gravel-throated Archy Marshall and his band sold out the Wrongbar and put u...
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ReviewsSam Amidon Hugh's Room, Toronto ON, September 5 Published Sep 06, 2013"Basically," begins Sam Amidon, goofily well-postured, scattily composed, "the way the record came about was... Jimi Hendrix spoke to me fro...
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ReviewsOkkervil River The SIlver Gymnasium Published Aug 30, 2013Okkervil River occupy an intriguing conceptual space: part folk band, part rock band, part folk-statement on the rock band. Their best-loved...
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NewsJulia Holter Talks the Celebrity Worship and Mystical Creativity of 'Loud City Song' Published Aug 29, 2013Critical acclaim for Julia Holter's newly released third LP, Loud City Song, is reaching a crescendo. Maintaining Holter's proclivity for in...
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FeaturesJulia Holter Outside Influences Published Aug 26, 2013No stranger to conceptual art, Julia Holter is bright and eccentric and strangely, irrepressibly divine. After debuting in 2011 with Tragedy...
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FeaturesDIANA Subvert Familiarity Published Aug 26, 2013"I just don't see the point in always trying to play it cool," sings Carmen Elle on "New House," a cut from Diana's exquisite Perpetual Surr...
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NewsDIANA Explain 'Perpetual Surrender' and Their Efforts to "Subvert Being Easy and Recognizable" Published Aug 21, 2013This week, the release of Perpetual Surrender trumpeted the arrival of synth-pop group DIANA. The four-piece belongs to an ecosystem of Toro...
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ReviewsDIANA Perpetual Surrender Published Aug 16, 2013Toronto, ON's finest new synth-pop group, DIANA face the unenviable task of bleeding vitality from an increasingly anaemic genre. Blame the...
