by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
This is the most important album of 2016. Gord Downie’s liner notes best explain why. Chanie Wenjack (misnamed Charlie by his teachers) was a young boy who died on Oct 22, 1966. He was trying to walk home, along the railroad tracks, trying to escape the Cecilia...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
Never mind the smug snickers of laughter and the haters alike, this is the best album of 2016. Here The Monkees manage to accomplish a feat none of their contemporaries, including The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, were ever quite able to...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
As time rolls on there’s always that one special album of unique importance to emerge out of every passing decade that, for one reason or another, floats to the very top of the collective consciousness. In the 1970’s that record may very well have been...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
On record as being “sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music”, Iggy Pop released Apres back in 2012, an album of Iggy crooning his way through 10 suave mostly French classics. Before that there was Iggy’s 2009 jazz album...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
His first album of new music since the tragic loss of his teenage son, this is a deeply, deeply moving record. Everything about the music here feels entirely devoid of affectation, completely lacking any sense of posturing or bravado whatsoever. This is a humbling,...
