Annie Clark is about to release her most personal record yet. Or, her most personal since 2017's MASSEDUCTION, which was her most personal s...
Annie Clark has become a modern guitar hero precisely for the fact that half the time, you'd hardly know she was playing guitar. From the bl...
Sam Tudor's last record, 2017's Quotidian Dream, opened with a tense creep — jumpy fingerpicked guitar swarmed by strings and horns, the shi...
Florence Shaw writes a song like a bowerbird builds a nest, with an obsessive fixation for colourful garbage. On Dry Cleaning's debut full-l...
Somewhere below the moon at certain twilight hours, you can see Mercury hanging in the sky like a false star. It's an unassuming little plan...
Just as the sky pales to muted pink, a cluster of light appears suspended in air. Is it a trick of the eye, or have stars congregated on the...
When asked to describe her outlook on life, Tamara Lindeman pauses before landing on the word: "Liminality." It's a fitting response from an...
Four songs into the Weather Station's shape-shifting Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman finds herself outside a club and looking to the blue: "I wat...
Albums by the Avalanches used to introduce themselves like dreamy street festivals — crowd chatter, hot pavement, snippets of music — arrivi...
An accordion's magic lies in its wonky instability. Even expertly played, there remains the feeling that one miscounted note or mashed key w...
While Dirty Projectors have always essentially been the Dave Longstreth show, it's no secret that it was the project's female members who ca...
If you want a masterclass in building a song that simmers without stagnating, "What We Have" is a good place to start. The opening track on...
For such improvisational, airy music, there's little breathing room on Matthew Cardinal's Asterisms — no long stretches of silence, no piece...
William Prince's Gospel First Nation is an incredibly complicated record that sounds like a summer breeze. Raised in Peguis First Nation, Pr...
Following years as a precious secret to a fortunate few, Beverly Glenn-Copeland has suddenly arrived. Now in his 70s, the songwriter and com...
There are few artists who are genuinely cool — self-possessed and unserious, powerful and vulnerable, the kind of person you want to impress...
Marie Davidson doesn't make untrue music. At its best, it feels like unbroken eye contact — her music is rarely cheerful, but it finds joy,...
Angel Deradoorian spent much of her career as a supporting player with Dirty Projectors, but her solo work has revealed an artist with a thr...
Certain records just reek of summer — hot pavement, bonfire smoke, cut grass and weed. Casual Fitness, the sophomore record from Calgary's J...
People had a lot of opinions about Krill — they were too juvenile, too cerebral, too self-aware, not self-aware enough. One thing that was d...
