album reviews

Tunng’s 2007 LP Good Arrows rarely left my turntable that following winter. Their melancholic brand of electro-folk suited the rain-soaked streets and grey skies of

If you haven’t yet been blown away by any albums you’ve heard this year, read and listen on. Some of us Vancouver Weekly music nerds

The godfather of Canadian hip hop is as fresh as ever. Maestro Fresh Wes’ album Orchestrated Noise, which he describes as a conceptual extension of

Kanye‘s Yeezus is a down’n’out ambush to the senses. Bristling and hypnotic, the overall tone is reminiscent of the angst felt and vented by punk

solo output of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist of the recently defunct progressive rock band The Mars Volta, you would be witness  not only to a staggeringly

One day they’ll say, “Mac Miller’s all grown up!” But it’s not today. For every moment of honest introspection and unusual production on Mac’s new

It’s often not easy for a band’s second album to measure up to the expectations set by their first. Austra, however, has shown a certain

Right, let’s try and get through this without mentioning James Blake. Dominic Maker and Kai Campos just couldn’t have had a better start. Hotflush Recordings

> J. Cole’s not there yet. Every track of the North Carolina rapper’s second studio album Born Sinner oozes discordance. Not in the sound —

At first listen, Scout Niblett’s latest release It’s Up To Emma is a melodic, trance-inducing, intuitive self-expression of the modern singer-songwriter trying to find herself

Nearly a decade before Broken Social Scene became the nexus of mainly Toronto-centric musicians, By Divine Right stood as the revolving door through which countless