Rating: n/a Reviewer: Garth Paulson
That’s right, not applicable. Though I’m usually apprehensive of assigning a rating based upon my subjective impressions of an album at the best of times, I just can’t bring myself to do it for Joanna Newsom’s latest, the triple album Have One on Me, for two reasons:
Posted in Folk + Roots, Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell
Jamie Cullum’s greatest attribute lays in deconstructing everything from classic standards to the latest dance floor hit and adapting it to his own jazz influenced form of commercial pop. Musical genres may be mute to him but a timeless melody is not.
Posted in Jazz + Blues, Music Reviews
Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Kevin Hartford
Imagine Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion covered by Sigur Ros on a spaceship that makes frequent pit stops in the late 1980s
Posted in Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov
If you were going to criticize the Shout Out Louds 2007 album Our Ill Wills, your angle would be the not-so-subtle Cure influences. In fact, influence might not be a strong enough word. But the album was good enough that it didn’t matter
Posted in Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Greg Hutton
Say Us, the full-length debut from Zeus, is composed of elements that make for great rock and roll: it is fun without being a corny novelty, it is affecting without being pretentious, and it includes great melodic sensibilities without sacrificing edge. Each song is distinct and serves an identifiable [...]
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Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Kevin Hartford
Most of the songs on True Devotion are little more than Seattle folk singer Rocky Votolato’s voice over an acoustic guitar. While the stripped-down production does create a certain amount of intimacy between artist and listener, it also has the unintended side effect of showcasing how unexceptional Votolato is [...]
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell
Considering Charlotte Gainsbourg’s third release, IRM was conceived while she was recovering from a brain hemorrhage and developed while filming the disturbingly violent Antichrist, it’s remarkable that the album is not a complete exercise in abjectness.
Posted in Folk + Roots, Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov
Taking the stage for a second straight sold-out night at Broken City in Calgary, The Wooden Sky and The Rural Alberta Advantage were as comfortable as a couple of veteran rock groups. After the crowd was properly warmed up by openers The Great Bloomers, The Wooden Sky took to the stage with [...]
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