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John Cale: Extra Playful EP
If Extra Playful—a five-song preview of an LP to come next year—is any indication, John Cale is aging in reverse....
Oct 31, 2011
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The Embassy: Life in the Trenches: The Other Side of 2001-2011
The Embassy is one of the rare groups that despite maintaining an extremely active internet presence is still likely more...
Oct 31, 2011
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M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Until the day we have truly intuitive advertising, we’ll be living in the era of perpetual hyperbole. With intense competition...
Oct 25, 2011
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Feist: Metals
Feist once evoked all the distress of a sunflower on a spring day. Her music not only accepted heteronormative standards,...
Oct 25, 2011
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Apparat: The Devil's Walk
Four years, in most genres, represents a substantial stretch of time to let pass between records. That isn’t the case...
Oct 25, 2011
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Geoffrey O'Connor: Vanity Is Forever
Geoffrey O’Connor’s debut under his given name is far from his first record. Over the course of the last decade,...
Oct 25, 2011
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Rich Aucoin: We're All Dying to Live
There are essentially two breeds of music lover in Canada: those who believe Rich Aucoin to be one of the...
Oct 22, 2011
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Various Artists: Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them Comp
It’s not quite the charity compilation, but the label anniversary comp is one of the banes of a music writer’s...
Oct 22, 2011
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Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams
The consensus on Dum Dum Girls via their debut album I Will Be (2010), and to some extent its follow-up...
Oct 22, 2011