Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov Johanna and Klara Soderberg are First Aid Kit, a prodigious sister duo being hailed as the next great addition to the retro Americana movement currently housed by the likes of Fleet Foxes and others.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue For Paolo is the latest effort from Calgary’s Woodpigeon, and for it, the listeners get everything they would expect from the harmony-rich band. The flip side to that coin is that they don’t really get anything they wouldn’t expect either.
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Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov For those who have followed Ani Difranco’s career up to this point – 22 years and 16 studio albums – nothing will come as much of a surprise on Which Side Are You On?
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Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats There are a number of media publications who are describing Ryan Adams’ new release, Ashes & Fire, as a ‘return to form.’ However, this record is actually an entirely logical continuation of the road Adams has travelled for his last three records (including 2007’s Easy Tiger and 2008’s [...]
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy As Canadians we are constantly struggling to define what it means to “be Canadian” – what is that unique little kernel of truth that defines us as us? At a recent screening of Hard Core Logo at The Toronto International Film Festival someone, possibly Hugh Dillon, remarked that [...]
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Kevin Hartford Dan Mangan’s production values seem to have increased with his popularity, not just in quality but in scope. Oh Fortune has an epic feel to it that was lacking in Mangan’s previous efforts, the intimate debut Postcards & Daydreaming, and the understated, Polaris-nominated Nice, Nice, Very Nice.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue The Place I Left Behind is the latest record from Saskatoon’s The Deep Dark Woods, and their first since signing to Six Shooter Records. Regarded for more than living up to their name when it comes to the tone of their music, their dark alt-country continues to develop [...]
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue Whitehorse is the latest project from Canadian music scene frontrunners Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. And the first time the couple has packaged themselves together under a collective band name, rather than working together on each others solo projects.
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