Staff List: Favourite Canadian tracks of 2011
Andrew Patterson’s Picks A strange self-reflexive narrative that’s part dream and part nightmare. A miniature jangle pop odyssey (complete with prominent shakers and sarcastic colloquialisms). In just over two minutes, Sheer Agony prove to be the exact opposite of their name: tractably delightful. Alex Zhang Huntai does his best to take a Francois Hardy song and make it even sexier.… Continue reading
Staff List: Favourite Canadian albums of 2011
Destroyer – Kaputt It’s been a wild ride as a Destroyer fan through the years: Dan Bejar as scrappy bedroom genius. Dan Bejar as David Bowie descendant. Dan Bejar as MIDI maniac. Dan Bejar as supergroup superstar. Dan Bejar as sprawling pop mastermind. Dan Bejar as melodramatic, self-referencing self-aggrandizer. Dan Bejar as spacey nu-disco cosmonaut. And what now? In 2011,… Continue reading
