Percy Farm, The End’s in the Beginning
This is a cheerfully ramshackle album, tumbling down and picking itself up again with each new kick at the musical […]
Issue 38
Various Artists, The Acrustic Age, Volume 2
Apart from the Doers track, which is essential, what do you say about fast folk? Um, I like it better […]
Various Artists, TEA Volume 9
A grab bag of tunes from acts that record at the Toronto Experimental Artists studios or use their promotional and […]
Various Artists, Stomp Atlantica Compilation
There are 27 tracks on this compilation, but I ran outta steam at 23 (I’m not as young as I […]
Various Artists, Out-014 Music in a Box/Crate Compilation
I know I’ve asked it before, but I’ll ask it again, “What are they putting in the water up there?” […]
Chris Yang, May All Yr Children Be Dragons
Let’s face it: Chris could write song after song and they’ll all be perfect, but he’s never going to get […]
Wakefield Brewster, da lyrical pitbull
In the introduction to Wakefield Brewster’s new CD, he tells the story of his first poetry reading: he showed up […]
Wait Think Fast
I wasn’t planning on reviewing this because I usually skip over non-Canadian recordings to focus exclusively on domestic music, of […]
The United Steel Workers of Montreal, Kerosene & Coal
My childhood, quite literally, stunk. The town dump was located approximately two miles from my home and they burned garbage […]
Silver Speakers
I loved this based on the envelope it came in: artfully decorated with dribbles of black ink. And then the […]
Signe Miranda
At once sweetly compelling and creepily obsessive, the smartly-observed love songs on Signe Miranda’s solo debut rip apart the contradictory […]
Sally Shapiro, Disco Romance
It is Valentine’s Dance Night. He comes through the crowd in a checkered blazer. The Linn drum kicks in on […]