Articles by Paul Blinov

Milk & Bone's Kinship Fuels Creativity on 'Deception Bay'

PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2018

"It was kinda strange when we first showed each other our new stuff," Camille Poliquin admits, regarding the initial moments of what would...

Cecil Frena

The Gridlock

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2018

The Gridlock finds Cecil Frena reckoning with the past. It's an alchemy of sounds that the wandering auteur has explored before under diffe...

Franz Ferdinand

Always Ascending

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2018

Franz Ferdinand's first album in in five years — not counting 2015's excellent Sparks collaboration, FFS — finds the suave pop band explori...

Milk & Bone Take Another Leap of Faith on 'Deception Bay'

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2018

"It was the perfect house," Camille Poliquin recalls, of a cabin she and Milk & Bone bandmate Laurence Lafond-Beaulne sequestered themselve...

Milk & Bone

Deception Bay

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2018

As Milk & Bone, Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne possess a rarefied ability to reconstruct your innermost sentiments out of an...

Hollow Twin

The River Saw Everything

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2018

On The River Saw Everything, Vancouver duo Hollow Twin offer a steady surge of sturdy electric folk. Partly inspired by and dedicated to th...

Curls

Vante

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2017

There's something to be said for Christopher Owens' irony-free approach to pop. The former Girls frontman is perfectly willing to let a rif...

Cut Worms

Alien Sunset

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2017

It's deceptive, how simple Alien Sunset sounds on an initial listen.   Cut Worms' debut EP puts a lo-fi lens on the melody-driven songwrite...