CD Reviews
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Hearing Trees: Small Talk EP review
Releases Nov. 30 at the Park Theatre
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Restless EP - Malcolm-Jay
Amidst the monsoon-like flood of rap music drops in springtime, a truly vast sum of releases are dropped, resulting from the solidarity of Winnipeg’s bitter cold.
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II - The Bloodshots
‘90s nostalgia is alive and well, judging by the latest outing of Selkirk grunge-revival quartet The Bloodshots.
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Anchorless - Logan McKillop
Anchorless (March 2019) is the sophomore album by Logan McKillop, a singer-songwriter from Onanole, Manitoba.
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Optimal Lifestyles - Pkew Pkew Pkew
Pkew Pkew Pkew are a rock quartet from Toronto who have etched a name for themselves within their respective scene over their six-year tenure as a group.
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Patient Hands - Stoic
There are few things more existentially terrifying than cancer. I imagine it’s near impossible to properly describe the sensation of carrying your death with you always.
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Jamboree - Island Life
Jamboree starts their five-track EP Island Life off with sparkling synthesizer sounds and crystal-clear rhodes tones.
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Home - House Handshake
House Handshake presents itself less as a band and more of a tight-knit, makeshift family.
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If & When - Lana Winterhalt
Lana Winterhalt’s debut LP If & When is an indie-pop triumph, pushing the singer-songwriter’s vocal power and intelligent, thoughtful musicality to the forefront of the genre.
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Stand High Patrol - Summer on Mars
If you follow European music, you may already be familiar with Stand High Patrol.
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Hail Taxi - Apart for So Long
Hail Taxi’s EP Apart for So Long is a hearty mix of folk, electronic and synth-pop all in one bowl of music stew.
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The Famous Sandhogs
The Famous Sandhogs are a band of minstrels with a vast amount of material. Their album Bohonky Tonk, as they describe it, is a Ukrainian rock opera, set during the Khmelnytskyi uprising in 1648.
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KEN Mode, Loved
Relentless, gut-punching, haunting.
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Mitten Claps
With their third album, Mitten Claps prove that it takes two with Can’t Not.
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6lack - East Atlanta Love Letter
The first time I heard 6lack I was just going through some music I had never heard that was in my music library.
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Nipsey Hussle
On Feb. 16 2018, Nipsey Hussle released his first studio album Victory Lap.
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C. Samms - Synthetic Properties
At first glance, it’s tempting to classify C. Samms’ Synthetic Properties as a piece of particularly tight, energetic vaporwave – a more tastefully orchestrated strain of the genre birthed from the internet’s neon guts.
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Ex Ømerta - Sink In
Since emerging on the local scene in 2017, Winnipeg’s self-proclaimed bastard rock trio has been making waves, despite not ever having released a major project.
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Sister Grimace
Winnipeg artist Sister Grimace, with help from Aaron Funk and Joanne Pollock, delivers a mystic ambient trip with her debut release Exorcise Shorts.
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Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche
Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche's thing, other than having an extremely long name, is playing, in their own words, “Kraut-funk,” which is to say that they play trance-inducing, multi-part motorik suites.
