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Michael Sumsion

Sven Wunder: Eastern Flowers – Review

May 24, 2020 by Michael Sumsion

Sven Wunder

Sven Wunder, the enigmatic Swedish producer, entrances with a nourishing, mind-opening and woozy synthesis of psychedelia, library music and Mediterranean funk. Very little is known about Sven Wunder, a mysterious Swedish musician who inhabits a stealthy veil of clandestineness much like Burial; there’s no indication as to his age or even how old his debut album is. … [Read more...] about Sven Wunder: Eastern Flowers – Review

Jess Williamson: Sorceress – Review

May 22, 2020 by Michael Sumsion

Jess Williamson

Jess Williamson, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, documents the quotidian and the astrological with a deftness of style and a flair for heartfelt storytelling on her fourth, and most captivating, outpouring, Sorceress.  Jess Williamson is far from being a mainstream name though she is ceaselessly prolific, as evidenced by four albums in just six years. Her latest … [Read more...] about Jess Williamson: Sorceress – Review

Kamasi Washington: Becoming (Music From the Netflix Original Documentary) – Review

May 20, 2020 by Michael Sumsion

Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington, the hot-shot jazz maestro, trades genre-stuffed sprawl for punchy funk brevity on his new score for Netflix’s Michelle Obama documentary. Ever since 2015’s mammoth, triple-disc odyssey, The Epic, the LA-based tenor saxophonist, composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Kamasi Washington has been a major player in the recent revival of jazz’s fortunes. … [Read more...] about Kamasi Washington: Becoming (Music From the Netflix Original Documentary) – Review

Mark Lanegan: Straight Songs of Sorrow – Review

May 19, 2020 by Michael Sumsion

Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan, the great 1990’s grunge survivor, draws upon a lifetime of wrongdoing, tragedy and dysfunction and navigates light in the darkness on his candid, ambitious and wounded new album. The ex-Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan is enjoying something of a cultural renaissance right now; his twelfth solo album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, arrives as a companion piece … [Read more...] about Mark Lanegan: Straight Songs of Sorrow – Review

Perfume Genius: Set My Heart on Fire Immediately – Review

May 13, 2020 by Michael Sumsion

Perfume Genius

The singer-songwriter, Twitter humourist and queerness icon known as Perfume Genius aka Mike Hadreas unleashes a whip-smart, vibrant and uplifting fifth album that redraws his musical boundaries to dazzling effect.  Mike Hadreas cannot be accused of not having a wealth of life experience with which to use as raw material for his tumultuous and frequently baroque pop … [Read more...] about Perfume Genius: Set My Heart on Fire Immediately – Review

Sebastien Tellier: Domesticated – Review

May 11, 2020 by Michael Sumsion

Sebastien Tellier

Sebastien Tellier offers up his latest full-length record in Domesticated, a synth-pop exploration of a new-found familial contentment, cementing his knack for confounding expectation but is lacking in depth and his usual va-va voom. The impact of domesticity and a settled family life upon creativity is a familiar theme that’s been explored in the arts on numerous occasions; … [Read more...] about Sebastien Tellier: Domesticated – Review

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