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maggie’s 13 favourite albums of 2023
Ranking my favourite albums of the year is always a tricky task, but it’s one I insist on assigning to myself every December. This is, ostensibly, an exercise I undertake because it’s “fun.” But is it? Am I having fun right now, or am I simply acting out of habit? Does it make any sense…
The Polaris Project – July 4, 2023
after taking a week-and-a-half to work through the third batch of albums, i decided to fire off the last ten all in the same day. i am so fucking good at music criticism!! Colder Streams by The Sadies i’ve seen these guys at Folk Fest a few times and thought they were simply “OK” each…
The Polaris Project – June 22 – July 3, 2023
it’s been a while. back to the grind! Once Upon a Time in Montréal by Murray A. Lightburn this album was a great choice for my June 22, 2023 walk to work! Lightburn’s softly sung-spoken vocals and the warmth of the orchestral jazz-rock instrumentation (of which the strings were especially pleasant!) combined quite nicely with…
The Polaris Project – June 16-21, 2023
Never Enough by Daniel Caesar due to “having heard good things,” i’ve been meaning to check out this guy’s stuff for a while, so allow me to say: pretty good! i can see the appeal! this is just what i needed to hear on the morning of friday, june 16, 2023 – low-to-midtempo R&B ballads…
The Polaris Project – June 13-15, 2023
it’s that time of year again! wasn’t entirely sure i wanted to do this a third time. i feel like i’ve already exhausted everything i can think of to say about music, but i’ll try to produce at least one novel observation across the 40 albums to follow. can she do it? you’ll just have…
one must imagine a Leafs fan happy, part three
somethin kinda neat i found out…if you ignore a problem for long enough, it either goes away or ruins your life. so 50/50. pretty good odds. @bobby i started writing this after the game 5 loss. i waited until the morning after game 6 to finish it up and post it. at the time, i…
albums of the year, 2022 edition
Thanks for tuning into my annual “best music” list. I decided to cut it down to 25 entries this time from my usual 50, as I didn’t spend enough time with any of the albums I might have listed to feel confident ranking them. A lot of good music was released this year and there…
Nope and the Dark Forest Theorem
this post contains spoilers for the horror movie Nope (dir. Jordan Peele, 2022) and the fantasy novel The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin, 2008), if you care about either of those things. let’s go. in Liu Cixin’s The Dark Forest, we are introduced to Luo Ji, a sociology professor without any career aspirations, in a scene…
The Polaris Project – June 21-24, 2022
The Fool by SATE Suffice it to say, this album sates my thirst for an ominous garage rock album with weird noisy interludes. At least, I sure hope that suffices to say because I can’t think of anything else. Highlight: “0: Loofeht.” 3.25 stars out of 5. TAO by Shad Shad’s got “good bars,” as…
The Polaris Project – June 20, 2022
Stock Exchange by Haviah Mighty There’s those drums again! Someone oughta send a memo around so that rappers stop using the type of drum machine sounds I don’t like. Everything in the world should be catered to me! Mighty’s flow is catchy, even if it’s undermined by trap beats that I personally find irritating, so…
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