Articles by Sam Boer
Real Estate Are Perfectly Pleasant on 'Daniel'
PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2024
Ultimately, 'Daniel' is perfectly pleasant. At this point, what more can we really ask of Real Estate?...
Katy Kirby's 'Blue Raspberry' Savours the Artificial
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2024
On 'Blue Raspberry,' Kirby marvels at the human desire to blend the lies and truths we embody every day into something delicious....
'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...
Westerman Follows Every Feeling Through on 'An Inbuilt Fault'
PUBLISHED May 3, 2023
On Westerman's second full-length album, the London-raised, Athens-based songwriter is questioning everything: where he's living (he moved...
Afternoon Bike Ride Find Effortless Connection on 'Glossover'
PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2023
Having released their playful and collaborative self-titled debut in 2021, Montreal's Afternoon Bike Ride glide along joyfully with Glossov...
Crosslegged Paints with a Multitude of Colours on 'Another Blue'
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023
To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To conc...
Living Hour Float Through Life's Changes on 'Someday Is Today'
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2022
On their second full-length album, Winnipeg's Living Hour craft a fitting soundtrack for the intense, isolating winters for which their hom...
Barenaked Ladies' 'Detour de Force' Is More Nostalgia Trip Than Return to Form
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2021
Barenaked Ladies: a venerated Canadian institution. A group of scrappy Scarborough pop culture nerds who — through wit, skill and unrestrai...
