Ariel Posen — ‘Headway,’ 3.5/5
In 2019, Music Radar readers ranked Ariel Posen among the top 10 guitar players of 2019. The list contained exactly one woman and the male…
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Alex Southey — ‘And the Country Stirred,’ 4/5
Alex Southey’s And the Country Stirred opens on a soured dream. “Caught You On the Throat” moves like some nebulous threat, the kind of sideways…
Finding connection and healing through art and land
Small gatherings, one of the latest exhibitions on display at the PLATFORM centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, has an aura of sanctity about it….
cEvin Key — ‘X̱wáýx̱way,’ 3.5/5
Skinny Puppy was the originator. Like the first fish to crawl from the swamp and onto the earth, its caustic sound was one of the…
Sadness with a sense of optimism
CEvin Key thought he knew Stanley Park. Having grown up next to the famous 1,001-acre parkland, the 60-year-old Skinny Puppy founder spent countless summer days…
’Toban tracks
The best love songs are not romantic — instead, they say something about romance. Sometimes they are about friends or parents or children or pets…
A much-needed distraction from lockdown blues
As its name would suggest, Six-Foot Citrus is a band with a handle on absurdity — an instrument-swapping lineup with a constantly rotating frontperson, the…
Musical chemistry found in a most unexpected place
The internet was supposed to make our lives better. The reality of that naive dream is a little more complicated and a whole lot scarier,…
Kiwi Jr. — ‘Cooler Returns,’ 4/5
With song titles like “Maid Marian’s Toast” and “Only Here For A Haircut,” Toronto band Kiwi Jr.’s Cooler Returns taps into a particular strain of…
Arlo Parks — ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams,’ 4/5
For each new musical form, there will be those who embody it and those who pick up whatever scraps are left. Every supernova lets a…