Reviews for Arts & Crafts artists
Cold Specks
I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Reverberations from the past always find ways to haunt the present. This is not always a bad kind of haunting however, especially if you make a brand of music entitled “doom soul”. Cold Specks’...
read more...By Nathan Marsh
Jul 10, 2012
The Hidden Cameras
Origin: OrphanAfter a string of rather entertaining albums, lastly 2006’s Awoo, Mississauga’s The Hidden Cameras, have returned with a new record entitled Origin:Orphan.
Recorded in Germany, it marks a continuation of some of the changes the...
read more...By Scott Thomson
Sep 30, 2009
Dan Mangan
Oh Fortune“I was thrown in the boat/Cast out to sea/Friendly with waves/There were sharks below/Hungry for meat/So I dangled my legs,” sings folk-rock storyteller Dan Mangan in the lengthy-titled album opener “About As Helpful As You...
read more...By Hilary Marchildon
Oct 5, 2011
Moby
InnocentsA first album is a testing ground: exhilarating and raw. A second album is a reflection and an effort. A third, a fourth: building, negotiating, backtracking, innovating. What is an 11th album?
By Megan Clark
Jan 10, 2014
