Articles by Ian Gormely

How to Dress Well Talks the Potential and Limitations of Pop, Weighs In on Emo's "Profound Lack of Subtlety"

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2014

A litany of adjectives are used to describe the music Tom Krell makes as How to Dress Well, but at its core, his music is pure pop. Nowhere...

Candy Hearts

All The Ways You Let Me Down

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2014

Like their name suggests, Candy Hearts' brand of pop-punk is sweet and naive. And given the past decade's boy-band-ification of the genre,...

Parquet Courts

Sunbathing Animal

PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2014

Parquet Courts find themselves in an enviable position going into their third album. Light Up Gold and the Tally All the Things That You Br...

Gold-Bears

Dalliance

PUBLISHED May 30, 2014

Gold-Bears' debut was a catchy, though lightweight, slab of C86 worship, but their sophomore effort tightens and toughens up their sound. T...

Junior Battles

Rally

PUBLISHED May 23, 2014

Nominally a pop-punk band, Toronto's Junior Battles display a musical world view that extends beyond the confines that of that label. While...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer

PUBLISHED May 23, 2014

Marvels' Avengers and its feeder films asked a lot of viewers, requiring audiences to watch five other movies in order to fully "get" the s...

Cousins' Aaron Mangle Discusses His Grandmother's Influence on 'The Halls of Wickwire'

PUBLISHED May 16, 2014

Halifax's Cousins were always a songwriting vehicle for singer-guitarist Aaron Mangle, but for the band's latest, the just released The Hal...

Cousins

The Halls of Wickwire

PUBLISHED May 14, 2014

Aaron Mangle has always been Cousins' central force. As the project's lone constant, his high-pitched howl formed the nucleus of Cousins' i...