Articles by Peter Ellman

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  The Wooden Sky

  Swimming in Strange Waters

  PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2017

  While the Wooden Sky's last album, Let's Be Ready, was probably their most accessible to date, Swimming in Strange Waters has a raw, live e...

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  Del Bel

  III

  PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2017

  Del Bel have been active in the Southern Ontario indie scene since their 2011 debut Oneiric. Since then, they've garnered critical acclaim...

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  Oiseaux-Tempête

  AL-'AN ! الآن (And your night is your shadow — a fairy-tale piece of land to make our dreams)

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2017

  French post-rock duo Birds-Storm's latest work is described as "some live epiphanies improvised between Middle East and Europe during the y...

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  RF Shannon

  Jaguar Palace

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2017

  RF Shannon's new album, Jaguar Palace, sits somewhere in a triangulation of Pink Floyd's mellow psyche-ambiance, My Bloody Valentine's exqu...

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  Eric Bibb

  Migration Blues

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2017

  Eric Bibb is one of the best bluesmen still living and active. With mainly acoustic stringed instruments and his strong but smooth voice, h...

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  FIN

  Ice Pix

  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2017

  On her debut album, Ice Pix, FIN builds complex electronic beats, mixes in some moody synths and samples, and layers her ethereal voice. Th...

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  Tennis

  Yours Conditionally

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2017

  Fresh off a yacht trip together, the married couple of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley emerged as Tennis around 2010 with an album of love s...

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  Russell Louder

  Think of Light

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2017

  The first thing one might notice on "Another Day," the opener on Russell Louder's Think of Light EP, is the well balanced synth parts, incl...