Review: Broken Social Scene's new five-song EP is a reminder of what they do...
Album review: Broken Social Scene's Let's Try The After Vol. 1 is dense, clanking, triumphant and nostalgic – and it leaves us hungry for more.
View ArticleReview: Julia Jacklin's Crushing is a deep observation of intimate relationships
On Crushing, Aussie singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin explores autonomy, as well as power dynamics between lovers, while elevating the drama of longing and resentment.
View ArticleReview: Avril Lavigne's Head Above Water sinks expectations
Album review: Avril Lavigne's Head Above Water. On her first album in five years, the Canadian pop punk princess has become her own worst nightmare – boring.
View ArticleReview: Pkew Pkew Pkew exemplify a new wave of punk existentialism
On their new third album Optimal Lifestyles, Toronto band Pkew Pkew Pkew show off the world-weary wisdom that comes from too much drinking on your couch.
View ArticleReview: Solange celebrates Black Americana on triumphant When I Get Home
Album review: Solange, When I Get Home – with her dreamy tribute to her Houston roots, the R&B/soul auteur shows the South has still got something to say.
View ArticleReview: Cochemea's All My Relations is a modern mélange of globe-trotting jazz
Album review: Cochemea's All My Relations – The new album from the Dap-Kings multi-instrumentalist delves into his Latin-Yaqui and Mescalero Apache ancestry, with stops in the 1970s Bronx.
View ArticleReview: Tanya Tagaq conjures the extreme winters of Nunavut on Toothsayer
Album review: Tanya Tagaq's Toothsayer. The "polar score," which Tagaq originally created for the National Maritime Museum, is a violent current you have no choice but to lose yourself in.
View ArticleReview: Jayda G's Significant Changes is an urgent dance floor summons
The Berlin-based Canadian producer and DJ's debut album is a record for the moment about being in the moment
View ArticleReview: Kiwi Jr.'s Football Money album is a guide to adulting in Toronto
Mint Records-signed band's delightful debut is full of 80s college rock and 90s indie rock feel-goodness
View ArticleReview: AKUA lays bare the aftermath of grief on Them Spirits
The new album from L.A.-based Canadian singer and Solange collaborator AKUA is unsparing, beautiful and cathartic.
View ArticleReview: Partner get severely goofy on Saturday The 14th
The Ontario-via-New Brunswick duo have always had a sense of humour – perfect for their unabashed rock stylle – but their new EP veers them towards joke-band territory
View ArticleReview: Weyes Blood takes a big leap forward on Titanic Rising
With some new resources for Titanic Rising, her first Weyes Blood album on Sub Pop, Natalie Mering reveals herself as an arranging genius, a master of atmosphere and an even stronger singer than we’d...
View ArticleReview: Broken Social Scene complete their two-part journey
Broken Social Scene's swelling, emotionally vibrant new Let's Try The After Vol. 2 EP will be packaged with the first EP for an exclusive Record Store Day vinyl release.
View ArticleReview: Billie Eilish is best when she's not taking herself too seriously
Album review: Billie Eilish's debut album, When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, is burning up the charts – and with good reason.
View ArticleReview: Just John x Dom Dias chart new ground for Toronto hip-hop on Don III
EP review: Just John x Dom Dias, Don III – The rapper/producer duo cover a ton of ground in the third of their EP trilogy, all with a thrilling unpredictability.
View ArticleReview: The Drums nail dating anxiety on Brutalism
Jonny Pierce delivers his sharpest and poppiest album yet
View ArticleReview: Protruders stubbornly defy the poison present on Poison Future
Album review: Protruders, Poison Future. The punk band, formed from the ashes of Sackville's beloved Kappa Chow, offer an artistic antidote to modern malaise.
View ArticleReview: Voice Of Lovers is Moon King's first full serving of disco
The album is the first full-length album under Daniel Benjamin's new guitar-less version of his pop project Moon King – a disorienting neon haze.
View ArticleReview: Greys sound fearless on the genre-agnostic Age Hasn't Spoiled You
Album review: Greys' Age Hasn't Spoiled You: like fine wine, Bill Hader or Gillian Anderson, the Toronto band are only getting better with age.
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