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Under Review: Crossface Chicken Wing, The Golden Age of Wrestling
When listening to ambient, the word “glamorous” doesn’t often come to mind. It can be difficult to escape certain hallmarks of the genre, be it…
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Under Review: Discount Cowboy, Spank Williams
Discount Cowboy is a terrific album. The songs are contemplative and engaging, and the songwriting and story-telling are top notch. The lyrics are vivid and…
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Under Review: Pray 4 Tomorrow, Dumb
It’s difficult to call Dumb veterans, but in the high turnover Vancouver indie scene, any band nearing a decade of consistent music-making surely deserves some…
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Under Review: Spaces, RINSE DREAM
Art-punkers RINSE DREAM’s first full length album — Spaces — released late 2022, and opens with some fluid feedback, a distorted bass throb, and the…
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Under Review: HEATCHECK!, Francis Arevalo
As a poet, I love it when songwriters utilise clever wordplay in their rhymes. So when Francis Arevalo’s HEATCHECK! was introduced to my ears, I…
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Under Review: Homecoming Queen, Devours
Homecoming Queen, Devours’ fourth album, serves as a collected recollection for Vancouver-based musician Jeff Cancade. Through a more traditional synth-pop album, which also operates as…
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Under Review: Snəqsilxʷ (Family), Francis Baptiste
Francis Baptiste (he/him) is an Indigenous singer-songwriter from the Osoyoos Indian Band, currently based in Vancouver, B.C. His album Snəqsilxʷ (Family) explores ideas surrounding relationships,…
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Under Review: New Age Attitudes, Amanda Sum
In New Age Attitudes, Amanda Sum definitely has something to say, something to show, and something she knows nobody knows. Her entrance is quiet, yet,…
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Under Review: Stuck In The Muck, stuttr
The first song from stuttr’s recently released four song EP, Stuck In The Muck, hits me like a weighty snow shovel in the back of…
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Under Review: Welcome to the bananahaus, bananahaus
Alright, imagine if Bauhaus, Agent Orange and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion had a love child band. Now imagine if the lead singer of this…