Noise 101: CD Reviews for Jan 15
Terror Pigeon! Yucksongs! 2014:( Self-released Score: A Terror Pigeon is back! Just four months after the release of their second album, LIVE IT UP BEFORE YOU DIE IT UP!, Terror Pigeon returns with...
Terror Pigeon! Yucksongs! 2014:( Self-released Score: A Terror Pigeon is back! Just four months after the release of their second album, LIVE IT UP BEFORE YOU DIE IT UP!, Terror Pigeon returns with...
Taylor Swift 1989 Big Machine Records Score: B+ Taylor Swift had fans claiming she “broke the Internet” on the release of her new album, 1989. They’re not entirely wrong. An impeccably timed iTunes...
The Gay Nineties Liberal Guilt EP Self-released Score: A+ The Gay Nineties, led by frontman Parker Bossley (Hot Hot Heat, Mounties), will be releasing a follow-up EP to their latest release, the Coming...
Coyote Proof of Life Fountain Pop Records Score: B This is an overall pretty cool, pop/rock music album with a heavy keyboard presence with an ‘80s feel. If I had to connect it...
Leonard Cohen Popular Problems Columbia Score: A On Sept. 21, Leonard Cohen turned 80 years old and released a new CD. Popular Problems is the perfect title for Cohen’s latest release. He...
Slow Leaves Beauty Is So Common Slow Leaves Score: A Beauty is so Common marks the greatest album thus far for Winnipeg country-tinged folk singer Grant Davidson. The collaboration...
Watsky All You Can Do Steel Wool Records Score: A+ Poet-turned-rapper and San Francisco native, George Watsky, follows-up his 2013 Cardboard Castles with All You Can Do, which is without...
Bahamas Bahamas is Afie Barchords Score: A+ Bahamas, Canadian Afie Jurvanen’s folk-rock outfit, is untouchable in its third album, the beautiful Bahamas Is Afie. Jurvanen plays most of the parts...
Hunger Hush Regards Self-Released Score: B+ Regards, Calgary indie crooners Hunger Hush’s first record, is a nine-song album of longing that plays itself out like a 90s teen movie....
Lowell I Killed Sara V. EP Arts & Crafts Productions Grade: A Debuting her first EP, Calgary-born Lowell has just released I Killed Sara V., a poignantly rebellious...