The soul of Pokey LaFarge’s music burns with vintage sheen

    Pokey LaFarge  – In the Blossom of Their Shade (St. Louis, MO) Though the soul of his music still burns with a vintage sheen, Pokey LaFarge is really exploring grooves of every shape these days. With a bit of exotic flavour under the hood, we get more of the

A year in music — the best albums of 2020

 10. U.S. Girls — Heavy Light (Toronto/Chicago) To evolve the ideas she crafted on In a Poem Unlimited, Meg Remy has found a lot more groove than grow in her new record. This doesn't shake out the same level of pressing art-pop she got before but it merges narrative, abstract, and

Album Reviews: Charli XCX, Perfume Genius, and more

 Charli XCX — How I'm Feeling Now (Cambridge, UK) Whether it's overt Top-40, weird experimental pop or somewhere between all that, Charli XCX continues to prove she's one of the most underrated and ambitious singers out there. With an album constructed in quarantine that follows her last release tightly, this

Album reviews: September 16, 2019

 Alex Cameron - Miami Memory (Sydney, Australia) While the sense of humour and character-based darkness behind his music hasn't changed, Australia's Alex Cameron is letting his arrangements stray more. "Stepdad" lets its tempered monotony allow for a narrative drive and  a stronger dynamic punch in  its choruses, as a new