By Ben Boddez
The Toronto genre-bender speaks on shining brightly while not flying too close to the sun.
Hot Garbage — RIDE
Ontario: Top 10 of 2021
by Daniel McIntosh
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The debut album from these Toronto-based students of psych is a cavalcade of fuzzy guitars brimming with droning textures. During the breakdown of “Soft as Gold,” percussion builds into a wall of sound, then falls apart again. Hot Garbage collapses into itself again and again, leaving listeners with no choice but to follow them into the abyss.
Bo Burnham’s transcendent comedy special isn’t the only great piece of COVID-adjacent art titled Inside released this year. The indie-rock quintet’s latest opens and closes with the sounds of the 7pm clanging pots and pans that once heralded the essential workers, and many of the tracks find them grappling with introspective thoughts while trapped in a room – being stuck inside one’s own head being an even worse fate than the physical boundaries.
By Sebastian Buzzalino
Calgary’s beloved summer festival trudges through the downpour with a stacked lineup of genre-bending greatness.
By Megan Magdalena
Rebecca White of Vancouver punk act WAIT//LESS interviews frontwoman Missy Dabice in a backstage catharsis session.
