Reviews
'Joni Mitchell at Newport' Is Nothing Short of Miraculous
Published Jul 27, 2023
It sounds surreal, glorious: dozens of top-tier musicians from around the world packed into Joni Mitchell's Laurel Canyon living room. Some-...
Articles By Sam Boer
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ReviewsWesterman Follows Every Feeling Through on 'An Inbuilt Fault' Published May 03, 2023On Westerman's second full-length album, the London-raised, Athens-based songwriter is questioning everything: where he's living (he moved t...
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ReviewsAfternoon Bike Ride Find Effortless Connection on 'Glossover' Published Feb 07, 2023Having released their playful and collaborative self-titled debut in 2021, Montreal's Afternoon Bike Ride glide along joyfully with Glossove...
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ReviewsCrosslegged Paints with a Multitude of Colours on 'Another Blue' Published Jan 26, 2023To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To concl...
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ReviewsLiving Hour Float Through Life's Changes on 'Someday Is Today' Published Sep 01, 2022On their second full-length album, Winnipeg's Living Hour craft a fitting soundtrack for the intense, isolating winters for which their home...
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![Barenaked Ladies' 'Detour de Force' Is More Nostalgia Trip Than Return to Form]()
ReviewsBarenaked Ladies' 'Detour de Force' Is More Nostalgia Trip Than Return to Form Published Jul 12, 2021Barenaked Ladies: a venerated Canadian institution. A group of scrappy Scarborough pop culture nerds who — through wit, skill and unrestrain...
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![The Staves Branch Out with Their Hearts Intact on 'Good Woman']()
ReviewsThe Staves Branch Out with Their Hearts Intact on 'Good Woman' Published Feb 04, 2021It was quite a year. Between the death of their grandmother and mother, a bad breakup, a pregnancy, and an unprecedented reckoning with thei...
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![Eve Parker Finley Shapeshifts on 'Chrysalia']()
ReviewsEve Parker Finley Shapeshifts on 'Chrysalia' Published Dec 02, 2020On her debut full-length, Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Eve Parker Finley (f.k.a. Lonely Boa) refuses to be boring. With...
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![Sarah Davachi Traverses Heaven and Earth on 'Cantus, Descant']()
ReviewsSarah Davachi Traverses Heaven and Earth on 'Cantus, Descant' Published Sep 15, 2020While Sarah Davachi has always tapped into the divine, her latest album is her most ambitious offering yet. Rife with diverse textures and p...
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![Kathleen Edwards Packs Her Alt-Country Songs with Emotional Power on 'Total Freedom']()
ReviewsKathleen Edwards Packs Her Alt-Country Songs with Emotional Power on 'Total Freedom' Published Aug 14, 2020Kathleen Edwards's Total Freedom, which signals a return to music after a nearly six-year hiatus, is a reminder that vulnerability has alway...
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![Hey Rosetta!'s Tim Baker Captures Moments of Connective Joy on His 'Survivors' EP]()
ReviewsHey Rosetta!'s Tim Baker Captures Moments of Connective Joy on His 'Survivors' EP Published Jul 07, 2020Having successfully established himself as a solo artist — more than just the former Hey Rosetta! frontman — on last year's Forever Overhead...
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![Sondre Lerche's 'Patience' Is a Treat for the Ears, So Long as You Ignore the Lyrics]()
ReviewsSondre Lerche's 'Patience' Is a Treat for the Ears, So Long as You Ignore the Lyrics Published Jun 04, 2020After years of wandering across genres, to wildly varying degrees of success, Sondre Lerche has staked out an unprecedentedly pleasant sonic...
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![Joel Plaskett's Quadruple Album '44' Is an Impressive Retrospective of His Life and Work]()
ReviewsJoel Plaskett's Quadruple Album '44' Is an Impressive Retrospective of His Life and Work Published Apr 15, 2020When Joel Plaskett gathered 12 other musicians into his studio in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, preparing to track some songs for his latest proje...
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![P'tit Belliveau Greatest Hits Vol. 1]()
ReviewsP'tit Belliveau Greatest Hits Vol. 1 Published Mar 26, 2020Presenting P'tit Belliveau: lover of Acadian folk music, wearer of faded crocs and officiant in the marriage between plucky banjo and cheesy...
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![She Survived Tragedy, Now Christa Couture Is Learning What It Means to Be Safe and Creative]()
FeaturesShe Survived Tragedy, Now Christa Couture Is Learning What It Means to Be Safe and Creative Published Mar 20, 2020It's a "flash-forward-to-spring" kind of day in Toronto, and Christa Couture has been relishing a new feeling: safety. Talking with lightnes...
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ReviewsMaude Audet Tu ne mourras pas Published Feb 07, 2020Vintage is hip, there's no denying it. Across the musical spectrum this past year, we've seen artists like alt-country crooner Orville Peck,...
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![Tré Burt Caught It From the Rye]()
ReviewsTré Burt Caught It From the Rye Published Jan 30, 2020For his debut album for John Prine's Oh Boy label, Sacramento-based folk raconteur Tré Burt is in a unique position. Having released a few i...
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ReviewsAoife Nessa Frances Land of No Junction Published Jan 15, 2020With her psychedelic folk debut, Dublin songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances has crafted an album that sounds like it is floating. Caught in the l...
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![Gabriel Birnbaum Not Alone]()
ReviewsGabriel Birnbaum Not Alone Published Nov 20, 2019The sheer number of spectacular indie folk-rock releases from Brooklyn acts this year — from the likes of Big Thief, Helado Negro and Thelma...
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![Luke Lalonde Quells Environmental Anxiety Through Joyful Creation on 'The Perpetual Optimist']()
FeaturesLuke Lalonde Quells Environmental Anxiety Through Joyful Creation on 'The Perpetual Optimist' Published Nov 20, 2019Though Luke Lalonde has dealt with travel anxiety while touring with Born Ruffians over the years, a different kind of anxiety fuelled his s...
