Noise 101: CD Reviews for March 18 Reflector
by Sean-Paul Boynton Choice Cut It’s very easy to complain about how bands never come to Canada. When an artist announces a “North American tour,” it’s usually a full tour of the United States...
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Noise 101 : Reflector CD Reviews for March 4 Edition
Choice Cut by Sean-Paul Boynton It takes some serious guts, or maybe just a missing inner sense of concision, to put out a triple album as a studio recording of new material. The two...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Feb 11 Reflector
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton When the Pet Shop Boys released their album Behaviour at the dawn of the 1990s, it was clear that the preeminent disco kings were no longer content on making us...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for the Reflector Jan 28
Noise 101 Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton Arts Editor People always say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” But when it comes to albums, sometimes looking at the cover and thinking about the...
Noise 101 : CD Reviews for Jan 14 Reflector
Choice Cut God bless the nerds who make beautiful music. From Buddy Holly to Brian Wilson to David Byrne, the musical world has always appreciated educated, uptight bookworms who are also able to lay...
Noise 101 : Christmas CD Picks for Dec 3 Reflector
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton Depending on when you’re reading this over the course of the holiday season, you’re either about to be bombarded by familiar Christmas standards being blasted out of every retail...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 19 Reflector
Choice Cut Them Crooked Vultures by Sean-Paul Boynton The past few years has seen the gap shrink to the point that it’s practically non-existent. Besides younger audiophiles thumbing through their parents’ record collections and...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 5 Reflector
Choice Cut Tegan and Sara Sainthood Sire It has been exactly one year and three months since Tegan and Sara released The Con, and in the time between then and the recent debut of...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Oct 22 Reflector
Choice Cut: The Flaming Lips Embryonic Warner Bros. Back in the days of vinyl, when rock bands were becoming more and more ambitious, the idea of a double album was exciting and intriguing. With...
CD reviews: Bow down once more to Maiden
Iron Maiden Flight 666 EMI 4.5/5 Stars Metal-heads Unite!! If you lived through the ’80s and witnessed the genesis of the speed metal genre, then this collection is made for you. What better way...
