Rating: 4/5Released: October 4, 2005Reviewer: Trent Depue On Limelight, Colin James’ ninth album of original material (he has ten including a best-of from 1995), he puts together a gauntlet of musical styles, running the gamut from blues to pop-rock, and opens strong with the hearty ‘Better Way to Heaven.’
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Rating: 2/5Released: November 1, 2005Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov Let’s get the obvious out of the way: releasing a condensed version of a box set with a few unreleased tracks is an obvious money-grab. The people (or person) in charge of Kurt Cobain’s legacy have likely left him rolling in his grave.
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: June 2, 2005Reviewer: Paul Flanagan Hearing Sounding a Mosaic, you would never guess that the Bedouin Soundclash trio met in Kingston, Ontario. They are currently mellowing out the charts in Canada with their single, ‘When The Night Feels My Song’ and for the moment it appears they have enough support behind them to [...]
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Extraordinary Machine comes after a six-year hiatus for Fiona Apple. Anticipation of this album was high, fuelled by the kind of controversy that, in retrospect, will only fuel sales of the album. After her record label reportedly shelved the original version (inspiring an internet based “Free Fiona†campaign), Apple eventually re-recorded the album, and with that we get the masterpiece of her career. |
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: November 1, 2005Reviewer: Connor Turner Simple, sensitive, subtle, soft, quiet and tender – hardly the words you would think to use in describing someone associated with Canada’s kings of screamo, Alexisonfire. Yet, with Dallas Green’s side project City and Colour you can’t but help to be floored by such a dynamically gentle and [...]
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Speechless is Bruce Cockburn’s first instrumental record, basically a compilation of his previous instrumental work and containing a handful of new compositions. |
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Rating: 3/5Released: November 1, 2005Reviewer: David Coats The late fall and early winter are notoriously a time for record labels to release works of debatable necessity – Christmas records, live records, best-of packages. Johnny Cash’s back catalogue has been through this routine many times over the years, the latest resulting in Universal’s The Legend Of [...]
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Rating: 2.5/5Released: October 25, 2005Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov Definitely one of the strangest and most challenging releases of the year, The Fiery Furnaces’ Rehearsing My Choir is a love it or hate it affair from the outset.
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