Recordings Mesa Luna's CRUX EP has a melancholy undercurrent Mesa Luna’s CRUX EP is the kind of collection that will sound great at a dinner party or in a cocktail lounge
Recordings Joanna Newsom sticks to her guns on Diver Divers is another ambitious effort filled with flowery arrangements, pastoral poetry, and the singer’s one-of-a-kind, warbling vocals.
Recordings Slow Start's You, Sword is beat-centred EDM The soundscape on You, Sword is dominated by burbling rhythms and sweetly melodic, twinkling synths.
Recordings Wavves verges on self-parody with V Given that Nathan Willams is a 29-year-old with a major-label deal, you'd expect to hear some maturity in Wavves' work.
Recordings Bradford Cox sounds serene on Deerhunter’s Fading Frontier Why are the Deerhunter dudes so levelheaded these days?
Music Features Patrick Watson probes the dirty sounds of science Despite his obvious passion for his chosen profession, the Montreal songwriter now finds other pursuits to be more fertile than music.
Best of Vancouver Best of bands 2015: Supermoon Singer-bassist Adrienne LaBelle used to kick up a pop-friendly racket around town as a member of Movieland.
Recordings The Weeknd goes big on Beauty Behind the Madness This latest LP is a bright, big-budget blockbuster that marks a departure from the nocturnal stylings of his early work.
Recordings Ryan Adams's take on 1989 more than just a curious stylistic exercise At surface level, Ryan Adams’s full-album tribute to Taylor Swift’s 1989 screams of gimmickry.