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Review –“For Science!”– Waxlimbs
reviewed by Erik Sedore Science, and its attendant technological progress and complications, is only ever going in one direction over the long run. You can try to build yourself an island if you want,...
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Review –“What You See”– Ghostly Kisses
reviewed by Michael Thomas Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but there’s usually a very big difference between what we perceive to be happening and what is actually happening. There’s probably no...
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Review –“LASH”– Kyross
reviewed by Kaitlin Ruether Skillful ambient music doesn’t just create spatial ambience, it also draws from the territory around it. At nineteen years old, Vancouver musician Kyle Cramer manages to...
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Review –“The Obelisk”– Loïc Zev
reviewed by Michael Thomas There’s magic in the air in the latest recording from Loïc Zev—or, at least, if it’s not in the air, he’s trying to summon it. Over the course of the three-song EP, Zev...
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Review –“Shake”– BOUSADA
reviewed by Kaitlin Ruether A month and a half ago, my partner and I did what Graeme Bousada — artistically known as BOUSADA — contemplates on his track “North Park”: we left Victoria to move East....
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Premiere: Mich Cota –“Kijà / Care”
Kijà / Care, the third album from Montreal-based artist Mich Cota, dazzles. Glistening and pulsating with electronics, Kijà / Care acts like a meeting place. Here Cota, in English and in Algonquin,...
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Review –“hold A: act 1”– lemin.
reviewed by Michael Thomas There’s a specific mood that hovers over the debut EP (act 1 of her 12-song hold A project) from Toronto’s lemin. It brings to mind (to me, anyway) someone sitting in a small...
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Review –“Dreamweaver”– Animal Party
reviewed by Jeremy Ramos-Foley In many ways, Dreamweaver, the latest release from Toronto’s Animal Party, resembles a lucid trip through one’s dream journal; the passage of time is indiscernible,...
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Premiere: Future States x James O’Callaghan –“Causal Listener”
Last year, we were entranced by the pop sensibilities and experimental instrumentation of Future States’ album Casual Listener. A little over a year after its release, Montreal-based composer James...
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Review –“KINEMA”– Miteh
reviewed by Kaitlin Ruether With a little research I learned that kinema is the archaic word for cinema, as well as the name of an Eastern Nepalese food made of naturally fermented soybeans. While...
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Review –“Trust”– Only Wolf
reviewed by Eleni Armenakis Sean Parker is back as Only Wolf, bringing his lone wolf, psych-folk approach to his first full-length release since his 2014 debut. Broody and sparse, Trust loses some of...
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Review –“Out of Reach”– Old Maine Fiction
reviewed by Laura Stanley There is something unsettling about the fact that Old Maine Fiction (a duo credited to “Sylvain and Catherine”) manage to be both corporeal and ghostly on their debut Out of...
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Review –“Camargo”– Matthew Bailey
reviewed by Jeremy Ramos-Foley Toronto’s Matthew Bailey takes sounds from the past and shapes them for the future on Camargo. Inspired by chiptune, 8-bit tinged instrumentals defined by contemporary...
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Review –“steady phase”– steady phase
reviewed by Ben Hollihan Music and time are inherently linked. Specifically music and the passage of time as it gets entangled with memories, emotions and events in your life. Music is a vehicle to be...
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Review –“Seelie”– CLANN
reviewed by Michael Thomas When you’re younger, faeries seem like the kind of beautiful thing you want to befriend and/or become. But as you get older you’ll realize the faerie are nasty creatures,...
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Review –“Sacrificed You”– Bothy
reviewed by Jeremy Ramos-Foley Lending human touch and natural affect to his synthetic instrumentals, Bothy’s third release, Sacrificed You, finds Alan Wilson developing an elegant electronic craft all...
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Review –“World Salad”– World Salad
reviewed by Kaitlin Ruether Self-tagged as “bargainbin” on Bandcamp and revealing little else, World Salad is pushing at the status quo with an EP of electronic compositions that move from just over a...
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Review –“Betting on an Island”– Alexia Avina
reviewed by Laura Stanley When I chatted with Alexia Avina last spring she credited her tonal softness to her love of ambient music. This softness that fills Avina’s EPs is carried forward to her debut...
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Review –“Felt Armour”– Pursuit Grooves
reviewed by Laura Stanley The general din of the city is incredibly overwhelming. On days when you are feeling particularly sensitive, it can feel as if you are drowning from the noises of the city:...
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Review –“In Contentment”– Property//
reviewed by Laura Stanley There is an unstable calmness about Property//’s latest release In Contentment. The Montreal band – Charles Harding and, for this release, Emily Kennedy and Luke Wilson – make...
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