Album review: i,i by Bon Iver
Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar Score: A As we make the transition from hot summer days to cool autumn nights, consider having Bon Iver’s fourth studio album, i,i, your background music. Listen to it as...
Category: Arts
Album review: Morbid Stuff by PUP
PUP Morbid Stuff Rise Score: A Returning with their third album, PUP’s Morbid Stuff is front to back what pop-punk dreams are made of. Where the Toronto band’s second album, The Dream is Over...
Album review: Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent by Lewis Capaldi
Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent Virgin EMI Records Score: A- Out of all the bops this summer, there’s Lewis Capaldi’s debut album filled with his rougher-than-gravel powerhouse vocals and weepy sentimental...
5 ways to support arts and culture organizations in Calgary
By Karina Zapata, Layout Editor As a fourth year journalism student and the latest arts editor of the Reflector, it’s only fitting that my summer internship was at none other than an arts and...
A refreshingly raw take on female desire
By Sarah Green, Arts Editor Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is perhaps the most important book I have ever read. Let me explain. This summer, I was wandering through Chapters in Chinook Mall with a...
Album review: Sludgefest by Chipmunks on 16 Speed
Chipmunks on 16 Speed Sludgefest Self-released Score: A+ From the opening notes of a hellish interpretation of Blondie’s “Call Me,” it’s obvious Christ has abandoned the soundscape of Sludgefest. Pitched down and brought to...
Album review: Hi This is Flume by Flume
Flume Hi This Is Flume Future Classic Score: A If someone told me five years ago that I would be positively reviewing a Flume album, I’d say: “Buddy, what are you? Some kind of...
How a radical shift in the literary world is reviving poetry
By Sarah Green, Staff Writer We’ve been there — stuck in a high school English class, head in our hands, attempting to dissect the intricate words of Shakespeare, Homer or Dickinson. We’re all familiar with...
How Maren Morris and the rest of the music industry are standing up for women
By Mackenzie Gellner, Contributor Music has the ability to make a person feel like they belong or that they are being understood. Music can uplift you and also put you right into your feelings. Recently,...
Pixar SparkShorts: The shifting tale of stories
By Rosemary De Souza, Features Editor The animation studio that brought us Bug’s Life, Cars, Finding Nemo, Wall-E and The Incredibles, to name a few, has had a couple of its Academy Award-winning creators leave...
