Arts & Culture

An upcoming solo EP to mark a new beginning

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Kaelen Bell
Odario Williams was in search of a fresh start. Or rather, he felt a fresh start in the air, with his friends and family yearning for a breeze from some new direction. And so...
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Hut Hut raised from the boards of Boats

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Kaelen Bell
Like some gangly misbegotten phoenix, Hut Hut arrives — dusting off the ashes of the beloved Boats — and steps into a new world of sideways harmonies and dancing guitars. In fact, Mat Klachefsky’s freshly...
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Tramping the trails of Winnipeg

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Kaelen Bell
Living in Winnipeg is not always easy, but it’s always something. Cold enough to crack bones and hot enough to melt pavement, Winnipeg is a city with a troubled spirit, a place of great...
Ally Gonzalo
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Sam Singer — ‘Don’t Mistake Me for a Lovebird,’ 4/5

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Kaelen Bell
Though electronic music and programmed sounds can have every bit as much humanity as live instrumentation, there may always remain that pervasive belief that real instruments manipulated by human hands say something that little...
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Bluebloods — ‘Make It Rain,’ 3.5/5

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Kaelen Bell
The nature of the growing pop music monogenre — music that’s promoted largely on the way it blends multiple, supposedly incompatible genres — means that music like Bluebloods’s debut EP Make It Rain rarely...
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Casati — ‘This Is Just To Say,’ 3.5/5

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Kaelen Bell
In Casati’s wide-eyed vision of folk music, there’s a refreshing absence of whisky and murdered wives — rather, the trio crafts a gentler world, one that sidesteps the genre’s more obvious tropes in favour...
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Fox Glove — ‘Dead of Winter,’ 3/5

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Kaelen Bell
Whether you enjoy Fox Glove’s brief three-song holiday EP will be entirely predicated both on your pre-existing feelings about Christmas songs.
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