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A Look at the Polaris Long List: 22. Grimes – Visions
Grimes is one of those photogenic buzz artists, popular with critics and hipster fans alike, that you wanna hate. She looks .like an oddball Scarlet Johansson (sort of) and sings like Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) mixed with Minnie Ripperton (at least with the aid of studio trickery, she does. IRL? No idea). Her 80’s informed […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 10. Kathryn Calder – Bright And Vivid
I guess the most notable thing about Kathryn Calder is that she pinch hit for Neko Case as replacement vocalist in The New Pornographers when the latter left that acclaimed indie pop powerhouse collective to pursue a solo career. But almost as notable is that this record was the second of two Calder recorded in […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 25. Dan Mangan – Oh Fortune
Yes, more indie folk sounds! :/ To be fair, Dan Managan‘s take on this apparently most favorite genre with Polaris jurors isn’t strictly the same ole’. Many of the tracks have a layered, orchestral feel with horns and instrumentation that lend some of them an anthemic feel. Breaking up what is rapidly becoming a monotonous […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 18. Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
I won’t lie. it’s hard for me to get into these singer-songwriter type albums with their folk, country or other influences thrown in the mix. Honestly they all kind of sound the same to me unless the vocals or songs are unique or exceptionally stand-out in some way. No disrespect to Ms. Edwards but while […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 16. Mark Davis – Eliminate the Toxins
Had to sniff around online to get a context for what I was listening to with this one: roots rocks infused with some post-rock influences, huh? OK. I can’t say that this album was bad or anything like that, it just wasn’t the kind of sound that moves me or the kind of record that […]