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Hey there, readers. How’re you all doing? Miss the sweetness of summer yet? While October gave us a few solid weeks of sun, it wasn’t…

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Long Distance Poison

Ideological State Apparatus by Long Distance Poison Like a glittery, sprawled-out daydream, Long Distance Poison’s piece of ambient cacophony, Ideological State Apparatus, is a captivating…

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Skinny Puppy

HanDover is an immensely difficult album to appreciate. Even fans of the industrial metal genre will grow into the album slowly, because it just doesn’t…

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Safety Show

o’ burro by Safety Show There’s something about the blend of Katie Lapi’s fierce voice in conjunction with the rest of Safety Show that’s enticing….

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Spirals

Eight minutes, huh. Vancouver-based Spirals’ Letom Setab EP is short. At eight minutes short—no, eight minutes long— the EP is a messy tour de force…

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Modern Superstitions

Fret not, Ontarians; despite the Leaf’s outright terrible performance this year, Toronto has much more to offer than just bad hockey. Enter the Modern Superstitions,…

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Mark Haney

Aim for the Roses is a particularly difficult album to review. It has so many seemingly interesting concepts, all combined into one unique release, that…