Articles by Liisa Ladouceur
Emily Haines Talks Transforming 'Choir of the Mind' for the Stage
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2017
Listening to Choir of the Mind, the first Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton record in ten years, it's not at all obvious how she will perfor...
Chelsea Wolfe Uses Noise to Drown the Din of Daily Life on 'Hiss Spun'
PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2017
Noise is relative. Some musicians fuss over eliminating crackles and hisses from their work. Chelsea Wolfe built an album from them. The...
Chelsea Wolfe's 'Hiss Spun,' Her Heaviest Album Yet, Was Inspired by '90s Rock and Industrial, Not Metal
PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2017
Chelsea Wolfe's fifth studio album Hiss Spun could easily be called her heaviest recording to date. With contributions from Troy Van Leeuwe...
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Choir of the Mind
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2017
"People drift away….people drift away…" sings Emily Haines in "Planets," the dreamy opening track to Choir of the Mind, her first solo reco...
Emily Haines Explains How Johnny Marr Helped Her Through Broken Social Scene's Post-Attack Manchester Gig
PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2017
On May 23 of this year, Broken Social Scene played a show in Manchester, UK, a mere 24 hours after a terror attack struck an Ariana Grande...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984-2014)
PUBLISHED May 3, 2017
So much has happened since 1998, when Mute Records released The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — which for many years was honestly the...
Timber Timbre
Sincerely, Future Pollution
PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2017
It's not a total shock to find Timber Timbre's Taylor Kirk writing a dystopian record. It's a bit surprising that it sounds like he's hav...
"I Would Never Be So Literal": Timber Timbre's 'Sincerely, Future Pollution' Is a Dystopian Concept Album but Not Like You Think
PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2017
Taylor Kirk, founder and leader of Montreal trio Timber Timbre, calls his newest release an omen from a dystopian future civilization, but...
