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Dear Sister – S/T
The spontaneity of a family singalong: a living room, a piano, a guitar, a banjo. Comfortable voices fit together in fluent and familiar harmonies. These songs have an aura of tradition: I feel as...
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Omarandthebear – Some Songs
Here in the prairies, winter fades but is never gone. Snow clouds hang dark and low over these songs, plump and bruised. Even as the summer breaks hot and dry, Oliver Thiessen does not so much look...
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Graham Wright – The Lakes of Alberta
A lovelorn concept album, an affair that traced the rocky mountains and the low roads around Medicine Hat haunts 17 years after it ended. What is the feeling that haunts the narrator, the listener?...
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J. Eygenraam – Brutal Love
J. Eygenraam’s Brutal Love opens on a lone tambourine, frothing for a tick like an anxious bottle of champagne before its cork pops on the irresistible cascade of guitar trickery that is ‘What’s...
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Samantha Savage Smith – Fine Lines
To the attuned listener, Samantha Savage Smith’s songs will conjure a picture of sureness amid chaos, of stability within motion. They’re stones skittering across the pond, rocketing but rocks...
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