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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Rating: 3/5Released: July 24, 2007Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov Despite being Canadian himself, Me, Myself and Rye is the first Canadian release by Matthew Hart, aka, The Russian Futurists. It serves as a compilation of his first three albums, and a nice introduction for those who couldn’t get their hands on his earlier work.
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Rating: 4/5Released: May 22, 2007Reviewer: Connor Turner What Battles have built with Mirrored is nearly impossible to pigeonhole or to explain. It’s a driving combination of primal pulsating rhymes filtered through the latest and greatest of Apple software – a Daft Punk meets God Speed You Black Emperor!
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Rating: 4/5Released: June 5, 2007Reviewer: Tyrone Castanho The landscape of popular music can often be described as an abrasive and raucous collection of quarrelling sounds and styles, a torrent in which many albums often drown. As a jazz-electronic fusion, The Cinematic Orchestra’s Ma Fleur stands as an album that detracts itself from the ordinary, providing [...]
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: May 8, 2007Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov With every release, Iceland’s Bjork just seems to get more and more bizarre, culminating with 2004’s Medulla, an album built entirely around her vocals with no accompaniment. But when she went out and hired hit-maker Timbaland to produce three tracks for her new album, Volta, that was truly [...]
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Rating: 0.5/5Released: November 14, 2006Reviewer: Connor Turner In the realm of Music-critic.ca, Les Georges Leningrad are legends. In 2003, their debut, Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou, was overwhelmingly crowned the worst of the worst.
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: September 12, 2006Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov The only thing sexier than being spoken to by a beautiful woman in broken English, is being spoken to in a language you don’t understand at all.
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: November 1, 2006Reviewer: Danielle Suchet Stars of Track and Field’s Centuries Before Love and War manages to do what many bands have been trying to achieve for years: reconcile the seemingly contradictory elements of organic musicianship and techno-pop.
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