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Youth Lagoon
Rarely Do I Dream
Trevor Powers wants you to get lost in the album, and he makes it impossibly easy to take the bait
Spectrum Culture
Panda Bear
Sinister Grift
There’s very little sinister about Sinister Grift, at least, not in the album’s warm and glimmering instrumentation. And that unsteady ground — of appearances versus what’s under the hood — only adds to the mystique and enjoyment of Panda Bear’s music
Under The Radar
Panda Bear
Sinister Grift
On his seventh album as Panda Bear, Noah Lennox delivers ten meticulously crafted songs, exploring a new thematic territory that's bittersweet but buoyant
The Skinny
Panda Bear
Sinister Grift
They're lean and immediate in nature, with melodic ease that belies lyrics awash with loss, uncertainty, regret, overwhelm and defeat, feelings that sit on the surface, undisguised. Print edition only
Uncut
Panda Bear
Sinister Grift
Perfectly sequenced, Sinister Grift's dubious uplift gradually falls away to reveal an exquisite melancholy introspection, the sound of optimism weighted by mooring hooks of sadness. Print edition only
Mojo
Tate McRae
So Close To What
On her third album, the Canadian singer and dancer amps up the 2000s influence and dials up the sex. Though it’s her most mature release yet, the music still sounds tedious and reheated
Pitchfork
Saya Gray
Saya
There are some self-consciously experimental moments, but the Toronto musician’s genre-mashing songs of heartbreak are often focused and fresh
The Guardian
Saya Gray
Saya
On her second album, the Japanese-Canadian musician’s magpie art pop coheres into something like a traditional breakup record, but her perspective and production are far from conventional
Pitchfork
Saya Gray
Saya
Canadian alt-pop artist's debut matches sonic surrealism with defiantly vulnerable lyrics
Rolling Stone
Saya Gray
Saya
A vivid and vulnerable album, brimming with emotional depth
DIY
Saya Gray
Saya
The Japanese-Canadian musician’s sophomore LP is a breakup exercise full of epic, idiosyncratic stories of farewell and mourning cut up into an all-encompassing and all-evading menagerie of trip-hop, psych-folk, prog-rock, glitch-tronica and dubby fusion
Paste Magazine
Tate McRae
So Close To What
Tate and her team clearly have an ear for sticky melodies and the lack of necessary lore is appreciated, but there still is a very pervasive sense of figuring things out here
Sputnik Music (staff)
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