Articles By Émilie Kneifel
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Vagabon Vagabon Published Oct 15, 2019Vagabon's Lætitia Tamko is looping back; her self-titled second album is riddled with synths and curious, searching house-pop that's periphe...
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Lala Lala Sleepyhead Published Aug 28, 2019"Take it / take it [...] take it / away," stutters Lala Lala's Lillie West, her gauzy voice floating through synth clouds. Then, dead-eyed,...
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Thelma La Sotterenea, Montreal QC, June 9 Published Jun 10, 2019Natasha Jacobs' four-braided voice tugged bodies towards her from La Sotterenea's adjacent billiard bar. Feet planted, voice wobbling, she m...
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King Princess Theatre Corona, Montréal QC, May 24 Published May 25, 2019Mikaela Straus, crowned King Princess, is a regular heartthrob. At a prompt five-to-nine, she strutted onstage to actual screams, which were...
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Caroline Rose L'escogriffe, Montreal QC, May 5 Published May 06, 2019Not much can pull people inside when the evening air is still light as denim. But as Sunday's sun set, a second summer flared in the catacom...
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Kelsey Lu Blood Published Apr 18, 2019Kelsey Lu's debut is a continent — neither linear, nor loyal to one cardinal direction. She chases dream states on "Due West," only to arriv...
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Anemone Beat My Distance Published Feb 13, 2019It's not often that an album begins with closure, but Beat My Distance starts in solitude, all broken up. "You're on your own from now on,"...
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Andy Shauf Theatre Rialto, Montreal QC, February 7 Published Feb 08, 2019Yellow beams lit Andy Shauf from behind, holding his back as he bobbed. His music has always been the kind of cool that takes its sweet time...
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Lala Lala Casa del Popolo, Montreal QC, January 29 Published Jan 30, 2019Lillie West recently sheared her own hair to look more like an elf, but Tuesday's spell was cast by more than just her trembling bangs. When...
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Juan Wauters La Onda de Juan Pablo Published Jan 29, 2019Juan Wauters loves fruit — melons, mangoes, oranges, fans bring him bananas on tour. On La Onda de Juan Pablo, his first album since 2015 as...
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Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls Published Jan 29, 2019Olympic Girls begins in long weekend exhilaration, "stirring / shaking / all of us waking." It drips and it blinds you, its tempo flaring li...
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Noname Theatre Corona, Montreal QC, January 4 Published Jan 05, 2019Noname hopped behind her beaming mouth and her bounding voice, her lips dodging every stutter and break. She darted right through the meticu...
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Twist Distancing Published Dec 10, 2018Laura Hermiston is on her way somewhere. She has California's coast on the brain — the guitars definitely got too much sun — but her sophomo...
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Kero Kero Bonito M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 17 Published Nov 18, 2018Kero Kero Bonito trickled onstage like deliberate drops. First the bassist, then the drummer, then the backing guitarist; their ringleader,...
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Tanukichan M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 17 Published Nov 18, 2018Hannah Van Loon's bassist, Matthew Horton, had a lot to say. When she plunged to the ground between songs to adjust her guitar, he goofily t...
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Helena Deland M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 16 Published Nov 17, 2018Helena Deland was doused in white, her pants' iridescence seeping only upwards and into her lungs. Her voice had an unearthly earthiness lik...
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Tess Roby M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 16 Published Nov 17, 2018Tess Roby's voice sprouted like tentative spring: first the daffodils, then the tulips. Her keyboard wandered behind, curious. "Ringing in t...
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MUNYA M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 16 Published Nov 17, 2018MUNYA's voice cut through the mingling of cocktail-party goers, making even office lights gleam. Accompanied only by her own fingers' keyboa...
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Jeremy Dutcher M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 15 Published Nov 16, 2018Jeremy Dutcher introduced himself in Wolastoqey, with words spoken by fewer than 100 people. The beauty of language — that it tells us "ever...
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Zach Zoya M For Montreal, Montreal QC, November 15 Published Nov 16, 2018Zach Zoya and backing vocalist Maky Lavender cannonballed onto the stage and never landed for long. They bounced like their very feet stompe...