Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Garth Paulson Sometimes Water Kills People, the debut album by Valleys might be the best example of an album name to album content marriage of 2009. After all, no one ever suspects water. It’s just always there and then wham; you get too drunk, pass out in an alley and [...]
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“I hope you catch syphilis and die alone.”
And with that, so begins the third album from Chicago’s Scotland Yard Gospel Choir.
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats “Gentleman” Reg Vermue (late of The Hidden Cameras) went through something of a dry spell between the demise of his previous label, Three Gut, and releasing Jet Black, his first LP for Arts & Crafts.
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Rating: 5 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene) had long been fascinated by the musical qualities of everyday conversation. He gathered some of his Toronto neighbours and asked them their thoughts on happiness.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell Keeping listeners engaged to an album where the artist is wallowing in heartbreak takes some mastery.
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There are few things worse than most “price of fame†albums. Though there are doubtlessly many drawbacks to spending months on the road, being recognized at a fast food joint and having loyal fans endlessly scream their approval.
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After releasing the best rock albums of 2005 and 2006, expectations are suddenly high for a band whose members were, until recently, holding down second jobs. Stay Positive opens much the same way that ‘06’s Boys and Girls in America did – with two blistering bar-rock anthems. ‘Constructive Summer’ and ‘Sequestered in Memphis,’ are both full steam ahead rock ‘n’ roll, accompanied by Craig Finn’s bizarre and ingenious storytelling.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov The music of the Silver Jews will always be known for David Berman’s eccentric, mischievous and downright genius poetry. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is littered with second-to-none storytelling
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