Album Reviews

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  Strange Ranger Assume a New Form on the Entrancing 'Pure Music'

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2023

  It's invigorating when an artist or band undergoes a drastic transformation in style or vision without losing their identity. Strange Range...

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  Mother Tongues' 'Love in a Vicious Way' Is a Perfectly Cut Diamond

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2023

  Mother Tongues play what loosely might be described as "psych rock" — but unlike the swaths of dreamy noise and drawn-out delay pedal jams...

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  a kid named rufus's 'whatever works' Is a Sprint Through the Anxieties of Being a Young Artist

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2023

  whatever works, the debut LP from a kid named rufus (a.k.a. Rufus Sivaroshan), boasts a short 27 minute runtime that feels like a sprint th...

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  Agriculture's Self-Titled Record Is Ablaze with Joyous Noise

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2023

  Black metal has a reputation for being a somewhat gloomy and melancholic affair, and a quick glance at the genre's sordid history illustrat...

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  Paul Langois Finds Hard-Won Clarity on 'Guess What'

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2023

  At this point, you know exactly what you're getting from Paul Langlois's new album, Guess What — and that's a good thing. It's Canadiana at...

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  The Heady 'Rajan' Finds Night Beats at His Most Precise and Mature

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

  Danny Lee Blackwell works well in mystery. Over the past fourteen years, Night Beats has been his creative outlet for outlaw music with a b...

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  Little Dragon Put Themselves First on 'Slugs of Love'

  PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2023

  In a statement released along with the album announcement back in May, Little Dragon called Slugs of Love their "masterpiece." While master...

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  The Alchemist Rises Above the Rest on 'Flying High'

  PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2023

  The Alchemist has been a pillar in hip-hop since he came onto the scene as one-half of the Whooliganz and as a producer for acts like Dilat...