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: Idles, Deftones, Will Butler

 Idles — Ultra Mono (Bristol, U.K.) Fast and brutal is the way Idles has made their music stand out, and way they've evolved is finding the power of silence. Using the ups and downs of dynamics like a sharpened blade, this band is screaming out with an utterly satisfying punk