Articles by Jazz Monroe

DIANA

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 Sur...

Julia Holter

Outside Influences

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2013

No stranger to conceptual art, Julia Holter is bright and eccentric and strangely, irrepressibly divine. After debuting in 2011 with Traged...

DIANA Explain 'Perpetual Surrender' and Their Efforts to "Subvert Being Easy and Recognizable"

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2013

This week, the release of Perpetual Surrender trumpeted the arrival of synth-pop group DIANA. The four-piece belongs to an ecosystem of Tor...

Julia Holter

Loud City Song

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2013

Julia Holter's third LP (following 2011's Tragedy, which was based on the Ancient Greek play Hippolytus, and the timeless Ekstasis) finds i...

Braids

Flourish // Perish

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2013

Get Braids drummer Austin Tufts going on about the sound of Flourish//Perish and you'll struggle to stop him: "beautiful" and "intimate" cr...

DIANA

Perpetual Surrender

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2013

Toronto, ON's finest new synth-pop group, DIANA face the unenviable task of bleeding vitality from an increasingly anaemic genre. Blame the...

Braids Open Up About Katie Lee's Departure, the Making of 'Flourish//Perish'

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2013

If second-album syndrome saddles many an aspiring indie band with self-conscious tunes, half-baked concepts and uninvited orchestral flouri...

Braids

Unwound

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2013

There's something nobody tells you about Raphaelle Standell-Preston: she loves to disagree. During our chat, the Bambi-eyed singer disagree...