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Raven Shields – Matches
Until now, I’ve admired the work of Raven Shields from afar — she is a vocal force behind Dear Sister, the perfect supplement to Graham Nicholas. But it is a crime to relegate her, contextualize her...
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Her Harbour – Winter’s Ghosts
If you aren’t interested in the snow melting around you, the inescapable sun, trees sprouting green leaves, or long legs coming out after months hidden away – if that summer feeling hasn’t had any...
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Nothern Primitive – Country Homes
There’s something happening in Welland, Ontario, some fountain of youthful talent, diverse and realized. This is frustrated rock and roll, captured straight to tape in a farm close to Niagara Falls:...
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The Weather Station – Duets #1-3
The Weather Station returns! Her 2011 record was one of the best folk efforts of the year. This unique series of duets with other You’ve Changed Records flagships came out on a series of postcards. The...
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Hilotrons – At Least There’s Commotion
Michael John Dubue is on some other shit. This is a pop rock album that sneaks through the doggie door. This is a pop rock album run through a food processor. “Runaway Heart” is like Tom Petty at neon...
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The Cameron Brothers Band – Ratios
The Cameron Brothers, Scott and Braden, are well traveled. As youths they gusted about rural and urban Ontario, never settling for long. Where families are uprooted, transplanted so frequently into new...
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Shahman – Sounds That Look Like Us
The title’s irony is obvious – clearly such innocuous-looking brothers such as the Johnsons merit an innocuous sounding record, right? Wrong. Shahman’s “Sounds That Look Like Us” is crushing,...
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Hush Pup – Darlene
Here we have some Toronto dream pop that does the dreaming for you: three fantastic jams, each of which can carry the day in its own rite. Hush Pup treads the ethereal perfumed paths forged by the...
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Shotgun Jimmie – Everything, Everything
Canada’s sweetest sweetheart, Canada’s #1 most magnetic pop rock tour junkie, Canada’s answer to brighten-the-corner era Pavement: SHOTGUN JIMMIE! is back with a much anticipated follow up to the 2011...
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New Swears – Funny Isn’t Real
One glance at New Swear’s tracklist tells me these brats live fast. Hailing from Ottawa, these guys must be a problem for national security—staying up all hours of the night, saying all the new swears,...
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Graham Wright – The Lakes of Alberta
A lovelorn concept album, an affair that traced the rocky mountains and the low roads around Medicine Hat haunts 17 years after it ended. What is the feeling that haunts the narrator, the listener?...
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Jon Hynes – Intro.Outro
A spacious solo offering from Jon Hynes, who collaborates with Toronto’s Donovan Woods. There is a great sense of atmosphere to these songs, instruments calmly coming together, acknowledged by a...
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Pink Wine – S/T
Snotty, boisterous, and shot through with sunburns and slurpee. Takes me back to younger years when the rewards of skating outweighed the dislocated shoulders. If you’ve got a sweetheart, you gotta...
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Snow Mantled Love – Conversations
Laying in bed with dreams of love this winter? Or perhaps with your loved one in your grasp? Snow Mantled Love has made music for this. Chamber pop—molasses sweet, molasses hue, molasses slow.Filed...
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Local Haunts – Local Haunts
The Canadian prairies are as difficult to describe as they are to capture in music. To capture the feeling of the people of the prairies is an even more complex feat. The magnificence of Local...
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The Hours – Steady Glazed Eyes
‘Steady Glazed Eyes’, the first of a two song offering from Winnipeg’s The Hours, boasts a kind of primeval melody. The kind that has always just been - has quivered with protozoa, stomped with the...
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Lexander James – Eye Melt Ep
Lexander James is the newest name of Castledrum Records electronica producer Rob Ross. You can hear the prettiness of Flora and the knuckle-cracking chaos of itsagamble! in there, but there’s really...
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J. Eygenraam – Brutal Love
J. Eygenraam’s Brutal Love opens on a lone tambourine, frothing for a tick like an anxious bottle of champagne before its cork pops on the irresistible cascade of guitar trickery that is ‘What’s...
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Graham Nicholas – Sometimes Chicken, Sometimes Feathers
Graham Nicholas returns with a collection of character portraits, his penchant for cutting directly to the core of his characters on full display and a strong backing band propping up his...
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What Am I Going To Do With Everything I Know – The Weather Station
Tamara Lindeman returns with a soft-spoken reflection on maturity and on love. When do we become conscious of the passing of time? The first signs of autumn: the stiffness of cold creeping into the...
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