Articles by Matthew Blenkarn
'In Ferneaux' Takes Blanck Mass to Surprising New Places
PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2021
"I think your destiny has been very hard and traveling," says a voice halfway through Benjamin John Power's sprawling fifth album as Blanck...
Loma Prove Brian Eno Right on 'Don't Shy Away'
PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2020
Loma never seemed long for this world. Originally a side project for Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Cross Record's Emily Cross and Dan D...
New Fries Streamline Their Esoteric Sound on 'Is the Idea of Us'
PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2020
New Fries are a hard band to pin down. Unconcerned with traditional songwriting, the Toronto no wave group have made their name on short, p...
Purity Ring Survived Isolation and Lightning Storms on the Journey to Third Album 'WOMB'
PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2020
Megan James and Corin Roddick are describing the place where they conceived "Stardew," the first song they wrote for their third album as P...
Purity Ring
WOMB
PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2020
There's no rushing Purity Ring. The Canadian electronic duo's third album, WOMB, is the product of three years of scattered writing session...
King Krule
Man Alive!
PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2020
Near the end of his third album as King Krule, Archy Marshall croons about a "putrid ooz" that threatens to consume him whole. It's a signi...
Destroyer
Have We Met
PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2020
Dan Bejar was flirting with disaster when he began writing the latest Destroyer record. Originally conceived as a Y2K throwback, Have We Me...
Badge Époque Ensemble
Nature, Man & Woman
PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2019
It's only been six months since Badge Époque Ensemble dropped their self-titled debut, but if their new three-track EP is any indication, t...
