Sam Singer — ‘Don’t Mistake Me for a Lovebird,’ 4/5
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…
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Bluebloods — ‘Make It Rain,’ 3.5/5
The nature of the growing pop music monogenre — music that’s promoted largely on the way it blends multiple, supposedly incompatible genres — means that…
Casati — ‘This Is Just To Say,’ 3.5/5
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…
Fox Glove — ‘Dead of Winter,’ 3/5
Whether you enjoy Fox Glove’s brief three-song holiday EP will be entirely predicated both on your pre-existing feelings about Christmas songs.
Let them eat cake
The kings of off-kilter, dumb-in-the-smartest-possible-way alternative rock Cake stands among the likes of the B-52s, Ween and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — bands…
Manitoba mainstays form local supergroup
Creating music, touring and exposing oneself to the world — these things are rarely easy. But for the members of New Wales, forming a new…
Eagle & Hawk — ‘Liberty,’ 3.5/5
Whether or not we really are blindly hurtling toward the apocalypse, these can feel like dark and scary times. The naively imagined bounty of politically-driven…
Poesy — ‘Glass Box Confessional,’ 2.5/5
The album art for Poesy’s debut EP, Glass Box Confessional, immediately recalls the cover of Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes — a young artist contained, trapped…
A release from a frustrating few years
Canadian indie-electronic musician Rich Aucoin is bringing his Death Tour to Winnipeg on Nov. 28, debuting the final instalment in his death album trilogy, Release….
Hallelujah for beer and classical music
Performing a biblical oratorio written in 1741 seems like a big undertaking for even the most seasoned vocalist, but for an unrehearsed group of casual-drinking…