Articles by Peter Ellman

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  Zavala

  Fantasmas

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2017

  Beatmaker Zavala turned heads with his experimental and soulful production in outsider hip-hop duo Dark Time Sunshine (check out their 2012...

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  Various

  Up Too Early

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2017

  This Friends of Friends compilation has a neat concept — music for the early morning — and most of the breathy, ethereal, melodic textures...

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  Akufen

  Karat 57

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2017

  French Canadian micro-house artist Marc Leclair is known for pioneering a production strategy called "microsampling" about 15 years ago. As...

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  Omar Rodríguez-López

  Some Need It Lonely

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2016

  As Omar Rodríguez-López' 12th solo album of archival material drops this week, the bigger news is probably still the new At the Drive-In si...

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  Téhu

  EP Boulevard

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2016

  Téhu is a talented keyboardist and producer, and his Unlog debut is founded on his love for electric pianos (the titular "EP" actually stan...

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  Lampshades

  In Medias Res

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2016

  Lampshades are a Toronto noise rock band, a couple of years old and a couple of EPs in. The Jesus Lizard's influence is palpable in their f...

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  John Fatum

  John Fatum

  PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2016

  "She's my favourite little pie, on a window sill / I heard one taste of ya, mama, would be any man's fill."   So begins the new album by 26...

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  Nude With Lyre

  Blood

  PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2016

  Tristan MacNeil grew up in the small Southern town of Augusta, Georgia, was trained in fine arts and has worked in the food service sector....