Album Reviews

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  Pile Write New Stories on 'All Fiction'

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2023

  Over the course of their first seven albums, Pile have developed the particular brand of dissonant yet melodic rock that fans have come to...

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  Ron Sexsmith Is Blue-Sky Thinking on the Buoyant 'The Vivian Line'

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2023

  Ron Sexsmith's career seemed charmed from day one. When the lead-off track of your Daniel Lanois-assisted, Elvis Costello-adoring major lab...

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  Andy Shauf's Sinister, Lovesick 'Norm' Will Have You Looking over Your Shoulder

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2023

  Andy Shauf is a world-builder, and over the years he's granted listeners a visitor's pass into the lives of a motley crew of characters. We...

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  Paramore Make Their Case on the Fantastic 'This Is Why'

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2023

  Paramore's trajectory has been quite incredible to behold. Outlasting most of their peers in the mid-aughts emo/pop-punk bratpack, the band...

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  Yo La Tengo Are in It Together on 'This Stupid World'

  PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2023

  "I want to fall out of time," sings Ira Kaplan in 'Fallout.' "Reach back, unwind." The fight against time will always be a losing one, but...

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  FONTINE Introduces Herself on the Enchanting 'Yarrow Lover' EP

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2023

  FONTINE has quietly been a key player in the Manitoba folk scene for what feels like ages now. A natural collaborator, she's worked with an...

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  Tennis Move Forward While Looking Back on the Glitzy 'Pollen'

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2023

  Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, now in their second decade as Tennis, have built much of their identity around the slow and steady progress...

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  Black Belt Eagle Scout Traverses Difficult Emotional Terrain on 'The Land, the Water, the Sky'

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2023

  Following her 2019 sophomore album At the Party with My Brown Friends, Katherine Paul's latest missive as Black Belt Eagle Scout — the warm...