Articles by Jordan Currie

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  Black Belt Eagle Scout Traverses Difficult Emotional Terrain on 'The Land, the Water, the Sky'

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2023

  Following her 2019 sophomore album At the Party with My Brown Friends, Katherine Paul's latest missive as Black Belt Eagle Scout — the warm...

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  girlpuppy Confronts Herself on 'When I'm Alone'

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022

  Allowing yourself to be vulnerable isn't as easy as all those sad songs make it seem. Bearing your big, scary emotions to the world is cath...

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  Dawn to Dawn's 'Postcards from the Sun to the Moon' Is an Intimate Dispatch

  PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022

  Dawn to Dawn's debut album Postcards from the Sun to the Moon is a sonic stream of consciousness. The Montreal trio, comprised of musicians...

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  Rina Sawayama Can't Hold Back on 'Hold the Girl'

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2022

  Rina Sawayama's muscular 2020 debut album — a pop juggernaut bearing her surname — came into the world with a fully realized sound, an impr...

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  METZ Spinoff Weird Nightmare's 'Weird Nightmare' Sounds Like a Weird Nightmare

  PUBLISHED May 25, 2022

  Heavy distortion, blaring noisiness, fierce intensity — these are all words that one might use to describe a weird nightmare. They're certa...

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  Mitski Is Vulnerable and Mysterious in Equal Measure on 'Laurel Hell'

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022

  After Mitski Miyawaki completed touring her acclaimed album Be the Cowboy in 2019, the singer-songwriter went dark. She deactivated her soc...

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  Beatrice Deer's 'SHIFTING' Is a Multilingual Merger of Darkness and Light

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2021

  Montreal-based singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer understands how to merge opposite worlds to birth a fresh, inventive new one. A blend of mod...

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  Hana Vu Unpacks Uncertainty on 'Public Storage'

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2021

  Hana Vu has had a brimming career, and she's still only at the beginning of it. The 21-year-old Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has tou...