Articles by Monica S. Kuebler

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  Royal Family and the Poor

  North-West Soul

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  It seems fashion isn’t the only thing to be making an ’80s revival lately, the opening track of North-West Soul attests to that (holy time...

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  Sugarplum Fairies

  Introspective Raincoat Student Music

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  The opening chords of this album are anything but what one would imagine "sugarplum fairies” to sound like. Thankfully, after the infusion...

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  Goldirocks

  Paula Tiberius

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Declaring "It's not who you fuck, it's how you rock n roll," this film packs a walloping Canadian indie rock punch, delivering some 47 song...

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  Big Fish

  Tim Burton

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Just in time for the holidays, Tim Burton's Big Fish gets the special boxed treatment. Included in the decorative but classic brown slipcov...

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  Bohren & Der Club of Gore

  Black Earth

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  There’s a certain something one expects from an album with a pitch black cover that has an equally black shiny skull emblazoned upon it. Th...

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  BrilliantFish

  Separate

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Toronto-based BrilliantFish writes painful ballads. That is, painfully haunting and beautiful ballads, brimming with pianos, saxophones, sa...

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  Desert Fathers

  The Spirituality

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  It must be ancient or obscure language, but this album opens with strange chanting and what sounds like a kid sing-speaking in tongues. Now...

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  Lazarazu

  Floodlit

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Lazarazu don’t strive to break any new ground genre-wise with their debut CD Floodlit — a collection of ten pretty but ultimately disposabl...