The Darcys Reinvent Themselves Once Again to Navigate 'Fear & Loneliness'

Published Nov 11, 2020

The Darcys' Wes Marskell says that he and collaborator Jason Couse were aiming to "blur the line between fact and fiction" and to create a c...

Pierre Kwenders and Clément Bazin Reimagine African Musical Traditions Through a Digital Lens on 'Classe Tendresse'

Published Oct 21, 2020

Pierre Kwenders has been known to allow every style of music he hears to influence his own. This is even more remarkable given the diversity...

Laura Veirs' 'My Echo' Is a Snapshot of a Divorce in Real-Time

Published Oct 21, 2020

Laura Veirs states she knew that she and her then-husband, producer, and percussionist, Tucker Martine, were getting divorced by the time th...

Hiroki Tanaka Builds an Intricate Garden of Memory on 'Kaigo Kioku Kyoku'

Published Oct 15, 2020

Kathleen Goring's favourite place is her garden. This is important in understanding the sound of Kaigo Kioku Kyoku, the debut album by her g...

Jeen Mingles with CanRock Royalty on Self-Titled LP, but Ultimately Forges Her Own Path

Published Oct 08, 2020

With Ian Blurton and Brendan Canning in her lineup, Jeen's self-titled album presents as a who's who of Canadian music. However, its sound i...

Riches' Multidisciplinary 'Fantasy Chapel' Points an Exciting Way Forward for Young Galaxy's Catherine McCandless

Published Sep 24, 2020

Riches is a collaboration between Young Galaxy's Catherine McCandless and choreographer Wynn Holmes of Lo Fi Dance Theory and Ils Dansent. T...

Sad13's 'Haunted Painting' Makes Morbidity Sound Like Fun

Published Sep 24, 2020

If you are fortunate enough to live somewhere where the air is getting cooler, and the leaves – and not the sky — are turning different shad...

Rich Aucoin Sonically Captures the Division of the 'United States'

Published Sep 17, 2020

Rich Aucoin has been known to sync his albums to movies so they can be used as alternate soundtracks. This time, the story he has created a...

Without the Romantic Dogs, Sameer Cash Finds Quiet Solitude in 'This City'

Published Sep 11, 2020

When Sameer Cash sings "the smoke sticks like a second skin," he is conjuring up images of Toronto. His new album, This City, is a rock and...

Elrichman's Free-Spirited Approach Makes 'Heaven's Mayor' an Engaging Listen

Published Sep 01, 2020

Toronto musician Paul Erlichman thrives in the underbelly of the music industry, exploring sounds that have evolved in response to, with an...

summersets' 'Small Town Saturday' Is Easy to Fall in Love With

Published Aug 24, 2020

Singer-songwriters Kalle Mattson and Andrew Sowka bring together folk, rock, pop and blues as summersets. Both musicians grew up in Sault St...

Toronto's Nyssa Subverts Traditions on 'Girls Like Me'

Published Aug 21, 2020

Girls Like Me is the debut full-length album from Toronto musician Nyssa, who was writing and performing songs by age 12, leading to her bef...

AMAARA Brings Visual Sensibilites to Her Meditative Pop on 'Heartspeak'

Published Aug 13, 2020

Sometimes a musician is actually a multi-disciplinarian who creates music as just one component of their work. Sometimes music is actually m...

8 Inch Betsy's 'The Mean Days' Is a Vital Expression of Community-Building

Published Aug 13, 2020

Music, at its best, is a statement in a larger conversation. The Mean Days by 8 Inch Betsy is a particularly great example of this. The M...

Double Grave Bid Farewell to Lost Dreams on 'Goodbye, Nowhere!'

Published Aug 07, 2020

Double Grave's sound on their latest album, Goodbye, Nowhere!, could be described as avant-garde grunge or Dadaist pop — like a Kool-Aid-ins...

Jody Glenham's Emotionally Complex 'Mood Rock' Offers Exactly What the Title Promises

Published Aug 06, 2020

Jody Glenham's latest album, Mood Rock, has a perfectly fitting title, with a moody pop sound — like a pink plastic glittery mood ring. With...

Fast Romantics Get Down to Earth on 'Pick It Up'

Published Aug 05, 2020

Fast Romantics are based in Toronto, but two members — Matthew Angus and Jeffrey Lewis — hail from Calgary, and other members have rural upb...

Madeline Kenney Feasts on a Smorgasbord of Sounds with 'Sucker's Lunch'

Published Jul 29, 2020

Madeline Kenney's latest album, Sucker's Lunch, is a sweet composition of folksy synth-pop with a thin layer of groove that never quite hang...

Nicolas Bougaïeff's Disorienting 'The Upward Spiral' Will Leave You Wondering Which Way Is Down

Published Jul 22, 2020

If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? Or, more to the point, what if all that can be heard is the sound of trees falling to an...

Rufus Wainwright Comes Full Circle on Older, Wiser 'Unfollow the Rules'

Published Jul 08, 2020

Rufus Wainwright has introduced Unfollow the Rules as coming full-circle in relation to his 1998 self-titled debut album. Indeed, it is a ho...