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Mose Allison: The Way of the World
Listening to Mose Allison—his concise piano-based parables; his even voice and literate verses—often carries the same affect as making it...
Apr 12, 2010
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Loscil: Endless Falls
When I reviewed Loscil’s The Strathcona Variations late last year, I wrote that it benefited ambient music to be explicitly...
Apr 12, 2010
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Indignant Senility: Plays Wagner
After the skull-cooking whiteout of Yellow Swans’ Going Places (2009), the good people at Type set a question: what would...
Apr 12, 2010
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Voltage Black: "Meccano Roses Pt. 1"
Hot on the heels of James May and his prime-time championing of retro-toys, boot fair favourite Meccano looks set for...
Apr 08, 2010
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Sam Amidon: I See the Sign
Sam Amidon’s third album, I See the Sign, opens on the least folk-friendly moment of his career. A picked banjo...
Apr 08, 2010
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks
Even if only going as far back as Chisel, which is to say long after Ted Leo began writing...
Apr 08, 2010
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Frightened Rabbit: The Winter of Mixed Drinks
When I was a child they brought me up on this cogitative little power ballad called “One,” by this band...
Apr 08, 2010
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The Juan MacLean: "Feel So Good"
For my money, the best thing John MacLean has done and probably will ever do is an interview he...
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Dark Dark Dark: "Bright Bright Bright"
Whether Kundera or Coen brothers, a grand lot of us (hands up!) have come to grips with, if not embraced,...
Apr 07, 2010