With Pleasure finds Edmonton's VISSIA chasing satisfaction across genre lines. Her previous album, 2017's Place Holder, delivered smart,...
The cover of Motorbike James' VIISIONS features a chrome-suited astronaut peering through a window, an image that certainly resonates after...
Scattered across Land of Talk's fourth album are interest-piquing fragments of chitchat. You can pick out "Fuck you, Debbie," or "When the s...
On their first release since 2013, LA's Man Man offer a sprawling oasis of orchestral freak-rock. Over 17 tracks and 50 minutes, Dream Hunti...
Jenny Hval has never shied away from sparring with dogma. Unpacking it is her forte: over six albums, the Norwegian songwriter has rooted he...
Jom Comyn's music conjures the sensation of weathering a storm. For almost a decade, his albums have passed through sounds like shifting sea...
Is there any element of Bruce Springsteen's mythology more important than the road? New Jersey, maybe, but being born to run inevitably mean...
Rich Aucoin has never been afraid to go big. Whether in lyrical content or musical scope, it might be the very scale of the Halifax-based mu...
The colour-blasted skull that stares out from the cover of Rich Aucoin's new album, Release, is his own. The Halifax-based musician had...
As the frontman of the Hold Steady, Craig Finn's character-driven tales of massive nights and bad decisions have anchored the band's blockbu...
"I've been keeping up with payments, man / I've been managing the pain," Craig Finn offers at a warm mid-point on I Need a New War. The song...
Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 took 15 years to become a hit. After premiering in 1977, a 1992 recording gave the then-living composer an a...
"I've been searching for the heart to tell you something," Jenny Lewis offers on "Hollywood Lawn." "I could get down on my knees / I've had...
For the better part of the Faint's 20-plus-year career — from dance-punk pioneers to enduring electro-pop stalwarts — their true calling has...
If the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey overshot the great apes and instead appeared before a mid-'00s rock band, the moment might culmin...
In tarot, the ten of swords represents a bottoming out: a low point to pull yourself out of or succumb to, depending. As a title, it sits pe...
Jason Sniderman's Ensign Broderick alias has quietly existed for decades: the NQ Arbuckle/Blue Peter member has crafted whole album's worth...
We Are the City's At Night finds the Vancouver three-piece joyfully embracing rough edges without worrying about sanding them into perfectio...
As the culminating piece of Foxtrott's Meditations I-II-III LP — released as a sequence of EPs over the year — Meditations III finds Marie-H...
After an album away from their long-running sci-fi narrative, Coheed and Cambria return to the Amory Wars saga with The Unheavenly Creatures...
