Ariel Posen â âHeadway,â 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 â âAnd the Country Stirred,â 4/5
Alex Southeyâs And the Country Stirred opens on a soured dream. âCaught You On the Throatâ moves like some nebulous threat, the kind of sideways…
cEvin Key â âX̱wĂĄĂœx̱way,â 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…
âToban tracks
The best love songs are not romantic â 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 â 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. â âCooler Returns,â 4/5
With song titles like âMaid Marianâs Toastâ and âOnly Here For A Haircut,â Toronto band Kiwi Jr.âs Cooler Returns taps into a particular strain of…
Arlo Parks â âCollapsed in Sunbeams,â 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…
Whitney K â âTwo Years,â 4/5
Whitney K, the drifter alter ego of Whitehorse, Yukon songwriter Konner Whitney, is a keen interpreter of rock musicâs dingier corners. His debut record, the…