Angel Olsen unleashes a brooding, expansive and boundless new record that dazzles and engrosses the listener with its colourful and powerful production and arrangements. Ever since her breakthrough in 2012, the Asheville-based singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has cultivated a distinctive niche in indie circles as a consummate purveyor of solemn and intense lo-fi torch songs and … [Read more...] about Angel Olsen: All Mirrors – Review
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Bedouin Soundclash: Mass – Review
Shape-shifting Canadians Jay Malinowski and Eon Sinclair reunite for their fifth album under the Bedouin Soundclash moniker, an inclusive and enveloping tapestry of sound that stitches together dub, post-punk, electronica, gospel, Afro-pop, swing and New Orleans jazz. In the digital streaming era, it has never been easier for an auto-didact with a curious impulse to access a … [Read more...] about Bedouin Soundclash: Mass – Review
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: This Is The Place EP – Review
Noel Gallagher returns with new EP This Is The Place, focussing on dreamy, sensory experience steeped in dance beats and hypnotic energy. I am going, to be honest here. I am a died in the wool fan of Noel Gallagher and everything he has done with both High Flying Birds and Oasis. I am listening to an EP from the man who wrote one of my all-time favourite lines in a rock song: … [Read more...] about Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: This Is The Place EP – Review
Kristina Stykos: River of Light – Review
Kristina Stykos brings her uniquely determined and fierce spirit out into the open with River of Light - an album that grows in stature as it progresses forward. Kristina Stykos has never been one to give up. In 2017, she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder that makes singing and speaking more difficult. This didn’t stop her from writing and recording new … [Read more...] about Kristina Stykos: River of Light – Review
Tegan and Sara: Hey, I’m Just Like You – Review
Tegan and Sara revisit the cassette tape demos of their teenage selves and bring a slick though poignant synth-pop sensibility to bear upon their raw high school journals of juvenilia. For their ninth album release, the Canadian queer-pop duo known as Tegan and Sara have raided their high school years for inspiration, drawing upon cassette tape recordings which have lain … [Read more...] about Tegan and Sara: Hey, I’m Just Like You – Review
No Me Coman: The Tide – Review
No Me Coman unleash their second record, The Tide, and take us on a wonderful musical journey. No Me Coman, translated to English simply as ‘Don’t Eat Me’, are a Euro-Amazonian project centered around the songwriting of Colombian/Swiss artist, Jorge Oswald and his Argentinian counterpart, Leonardo Pedrocca. Oswald and Pedrocca welcomed the influence of the Swiss-Argentinian … [Read more...] about No Me Coman: The Tide – Review