Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Lukas Clark-Memler Discovery is a musical collaboration of two very different artists; a duo that in most other cases would likely remain unsigned and unheard of.
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Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Trent McMartin Infectious disco beats provided by the former Controller Controller rhythm section coupled with strong vocals from singer Vanessa Fischer, formerly of No Dynamics, give little delight in this sub-average debut EP
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Garth Paulson The Sound of Animals Fighting aren’t the first band to mix the beautiful with the destructive, but they’re one of the most effective. The multi-headed, collective beast has a true knack for toying with listeners’ expectations
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Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Louis Ducharme The Pinker Tones’ latest album, Wild Animals, is weird, but starts off promisingly enough with ‘Hold On,’ a decent dance-pop track with some chorus singing flourishes.
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Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Andre Guimond The Blue Jays, Maple Leafs, Toronto FC and The Cansecos all have something in common other than being semi-sports related Toronto-based groups: they’re all struggling to discover who they are. That’s not to say that any one of them won’t look (or sound) pretty good at times – based purely [...]
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Rating: 4/5Released: November 13, 2007Reviewer: Andre Guimond Ever noticed how a full season of 24 really only runs for 17 hours 28 minutes? Where did the other 6-plus hours go? My gut feeling is that LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy noticed the aberration, and hated those lost hours so much that he gave a little [...]
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Rating: 3/5Released: August 21, 2007Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov These days, it’s not unusual for a band to employ one or two multi-instrumentalists to flesh out their sound. Architecture in Helsinki were ahead of the curve on that when they formed in 2000, with every member being able to play multiple instruments, and with no fear of [...]
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Rating: 2.5/5Released: June 26, 2007Reviewer: David Coats Originally recorded in 2000 and until now only available as an online download, Grow Up And Blow Away is technically Metric’s first record. The band was only a two-piece at the time – vocalist Emily Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw – and this record is clearly the sound [...]
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