Future Hearts - All Time Low
April 9, 2015
Rating: 6.5/10 When I was younger, All Time Low was one od my favourite bands. Then I graduated high school and sort of tried to leave that pop punk phase behind. But even though I…
Beyond the announcement that Frank Ocean’s new album is due to come out this summer (goodbye forever, I am never leaving my bed– I just need a few foxy ladies to join me), a few…
American Candy - The Maine
April 2, 2015
Rating: 9/10 For God’s sake. I can’t stop/won’t stop (hahahahah! Get it?) listening to The Maine and I hate myself for it (I’m lying). I mean, okay. I used to listen to The Maine a…
Last time I did one of these, I forgot to write an intro. But I don’t like delving right into the music without telling you what’s good and what’s going on. So, this week some…
Kintsugi - Death Cab For Cutie
March 27, 2015
Rating: 8/10 I can’t believe there’s a new Death Cab album. I’d literally given up all hope. But, like the album suggests, the band wasn’t completely unfixable– Kintsugi is an allusion to the Japanese art…
I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt
March 26, 2015
Rating: 9/10 With Earl’s third album, an obvious change is seen in the rapper. He is older, more mature. As he said in an interview with NPR, “I’m grown.” The opening track “Huey” is already…
Hayden – Hey Love Canadian indie darling Hayden hails from the same post-development suburb as me– good old Thornhill. This is information I didn’t previously know, but it is information that makes me love him…
Another week, another drop, another dump of emails in my inbox and another week spent listening to all the new stuff when all I really want is to lie down on the floor and listen…
Strangers To Ourselves - Modest Mouse
March 16, 2015
Rating: 9/10 Modest Mouse formed the year I was born, and I spent the subsequent years following that event listening to their music and lying on whatever mattress was on my floor from age seven…