Album Reviews

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  Westerman Follows Every Feeling Through on 'An Inbuilt Fault'

  PUBLISHED May 3, 2023

  On Westerman's second full-length album, the London-raised, Athens-based songwriter is questioning everything: where he's living (he moved...

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  Olivia Jean's 'Raving Ghost' Is Decadent and Dangerous

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2023

  Born in 1990, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Olivia Jean came up through the suburbs of Detroit, steeped in the music of the Gore...

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  Witch Prophet Explores the Vastness of Love on 'Gateway Experience'

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2023

  When you hear the horns bloom like Valentine roses on "Dreaming," you'll be left wondering how Witch Prophet will respond to her wife SUN S...

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  Jessie Ware Takes a Glamorous Victory Lap on 'That! Feels Good!'

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2023

  A handful of albums came out at exactly the right time in 2020. Though the overplayed hand of the "pandemic album" can be seldom smacked aw...

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  Harrison Pushes Beyond the Material World on 'Birds, Bees, the Clouds & the Trees'

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2023

  Harrison's third full length introduces itself with a cloud of vinyl crackle and hiss — a language anyone who's dropped the needle on the o...

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  Tunic Find New Facets of Sound on 'Wrong Dream'

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2023

  Winnipeg art punks Tunic cut some of the genre's most heart-pounding and apocalyptic soundscapes; the screams of vocalist David Schellenber...

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  Zoon's 'Bekka Ma'iingan' Is a Captivating Force

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2023

  Growing up in the small town of Selkirk, Manitoba, located just north of Winnipeg, was a hostile environment for Daniel Monkman. They spent...

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  Single Mothers Shapeshift Once Again on 'Roy'

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2023

  Everybody has that friend you speak to once a year: You were inseparable once, but then you drifted and now only keep contact through the a...