JR Charron — ‘Impression,’ 3/5
What do you say about a record like JR Charron’s Impression? Its instant familiarity and country-radio soundalike style is part of the appeal, its lack…
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Vagina Witchcraft — ‘Vagina Witchcraft,’ 4/5
Vagina Witchcraft’s debut record doesn’t open with a scream or sludgy riff, but a missive, spoken with such raw feeling as to make the hair…
Odario — ‘Good Morning Hunter,’ 4.5/5
There is a notion that times of political and social turmoil create incendiary music, the kind of essential, galvanizing work that inspires and unites people….
Madisyn Whajne — ‘Save Our Hearts,’ 4/5
One can imagine the sunlight that must’ve filled the studio as Madisyn Whajne recorded Save Our Hearts — pooling like melted caramel and casting flecks…
Christo Graham — ‘Turnin’,’ 4/5
With a voice that shares some forlorn fibre with the king of melancholy Townes Van Zandt — or maybe it’s a lovesick Alex Chilton on…
Mise en Scene — ‘Winnipeg, California,’ 4.5/5
The space between Manitoba and California is less a literal distance and more an imagined one. They couldn’t occupy more disparate places in the public…
November Underground — ‘November Underground,’ 4/5
There are generally two modes when it comes to decade-specific revivalism: those artists who embody a particular aesthetic ideal without committing fully to the sound…
Rich Aucoin – ‘United States,’ 3.5/5
Like just about every record from Halifax, N.S., pop-maximalist Rich Aucoin’s latest multi-coloured dispatch arrives on the back of a concept. Even so, the sparkling…
Figure Walking — ‘Vertical/Horizontal,’ 4/5
Figure Walking’s 2017 debut, The Big Other, was lean and thrilling post-punk, a seedy dash through crowded city streets and purple alleyways, all steam and…
Silver Clouds — ‘Silver Clouds,’ 4/5
The artwork for the debut record from Silver Clouds — with its splattered psychedelia and tossed-off lemon slice — recalls immediately the cover of the…