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“Breaking Our Pattern”
When words fail, Vivek Shraya sings. On New Models, the multi-hyphenate artist lets language fall away, and feelings take the lead.
Oct 21
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“Listen”
Funny how the 1980s anxiety and angst of Tears For Fears’ Songs from the Big Chair feel uncomfortably familiar for a forty-year-old album.
Oct 16
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“In Another Life”
Rec Centre’s Squash and Nation of Language’s Dance Called Memory trace echoes of the past without getting lost in them.
Oct 7
September 2025
“The Last Time”
The first stop of a reverse reflection on the music of Saint Etienne is 2025’s International, their latest—and last ever—album as a band.
Sep 30
Air Etienne: Now Boarding
A reverse reflection on the music of Saint Etienne, from International (2025) to Foxbase Alpha (1991)
Sep 18
“How do you love?”
2 IN 1: The Hidden Cameras, Winter
Sep 16
“Life is Endless, Life is a Moment”
suede: a retro-flection, POSTLUDE, Antidepressants (and a playlist)
Sep 9
Re-Introducing the B-Sides: 10 Best from Sci-Fi Lullabies Vol. 2
Suede: a retro-flection, FOURTH INTERMISSION
Sep 4
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Jim Di Gioia
“To Boldly Clap in a Room Full of Nothing”
What the Tragically Hip tells so-called Canadians about who they are and what they pretend to be.
Sep 2
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Jim Di Gioia
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August 2025
“Bluebird[s] of Happiness”
4 IN 1: Hand Habits, TOPS, Kathleen Edwards, and Water From Your Eyes
Aug 28
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Autofiction
suede: a retro-flection, ACT NINE
Aug 26
“I Hate That I Forget What You Look Like”
No Joy, Bugland
Aug 21
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Jim Di Gioia
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