By Michelle Swami
With its “Wild Things” theme and femme-forward ethos, the electronic music gathering delivered a weekend of radical joy and thoughtful celebration.
Sinzere - Blackout
Alberta: Top 10 of 2021
by Ben Boddez
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Calgary rapper Sinzere’s Blackout EP opens with a Malcolm X speech, and the tracks that follow see her attacking power structures with the same fury as the legendary activist. There are many prominent rappers touching upon systemic racism, but none of them do so quite as bluntly and succinctly as Sinzere. She backs up her arguments with poetically worded historical tales, juxtaposing them with confident boasts, and does it all with calm and collected poise.
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 Ben Boddez
Back-to-back sold-out shows, Vancouver got the full pop-prophet treatment from Canada’s biggest pop export.
By Cam Delisle
RANGE editor Cam Delisle unpacks his first time at the crown jewel of Quebec City’s festival circuit.
