I defy you to dislike this album. I am serious. You may love it, you may be indifferent, but you certainly won’t dislike it. I fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. On the one hand, Crystal Theatre contains some finely crafted, often lovely, pieces of music. On the other, though I have now…
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Before listening to this album, I invite you to judge it. Judge it by that which we are told never to judge anything by, ever: the cover. Because what you see here is what you’re going to get. I had vaguely heard of of Montreal (no, that’s not a typo – the ‘of’ in the…
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When I first heard about Elisapie’s There Will Be Stars, I will admit to being intrigued. This is Elisapie’s first solo album; not a newcomer to the music world, she has previously recorded as one half of the popular Canadian duo Taima (an Inuktitut word meaning “that’s all”). What’s Inuktitut, you ask? That would be…
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