BADBADNOTGOOD – Mid Spiral
By Stephan BoissonneaultSomewhere around 2020 in the thick of the pandemic, I revised BADBADNOTGOOD’s IV album and fell in love with it all over again. That album is pure lightning in a bottle, signaled off by the amazing collaborations with guys like Sam T. Herring, Kaytranada, and the soul stylings of Charlotte Day Wilson. It’s just hit […]
SAMWOY – Poison
By Stephan BoissonneaultSAMWOY has been busy since the release of his debut album Awkward Party last summer, briefly going into remission to work and record the next batch of songs for the upcoming follow-up, Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun (don’t we all?) SAMWOY has emerged from my solo effort into a full-fledged band—one that has […]
Angell & Crane
By Frédéric CardinSimon Angell (Thus Owls) on guitar and Tommy Crane on percussion have never before offered audiences a recorded duo project on record, despite many years of collaboration on numerous musical adventures on the rich Montreal scene. The eponymously-named Angell & Crane offers us a glimpse of the kind of spontaneous creative explosion that can spring […]
AmyJo Doh & the Spangles – Spangle Landia
By Stephan BoissonneaultIt must be fun to be AmyJo Doherty. Her brother is in The Libertines, who was one of the biggest bands in the English rock world and people expect greatness from him. But AmyJo can do her own thing, not coast per se, but find her own sound, one that dips from UK garage rock, […]