By Stephan Boissonneault
Celebrating 10 years as a band, the Montreal art rockers are back with a a sophisticated and fresh new album.
The veteran Montreal indie-pop six-piece’s first album in five years takes a look back on two decades and nine projects of work, toning things down musically to offer some musings on cycles, rebirths and unexpected ends, touching on deaths both literal and metaphorical as they ponder what it will mean when longstanding life paths might come to a close.
While a couple tracks with a new synth-heavy direction and the band’s typical grandiose soundscapes still pop up from time to time, most of the album is acoustic and subdued to match Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan’s whispery, intimate duets.
By Stephan Boissonneault
Celebrating 10 years as a band, the Montreal art rockers are back with a a sophisticated and fresh new album.
By Madeline Lines
The art pop experimentalist pens a powerful soundtrack for the end of times with All Born Screaming.
By Sebastian Buzzalino
In conversation with some of the artists who were closest to the late Calgary music insider.