

LaVette remains at the peak of her considerable powers at the age of 77. JAlvvays’ Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan, October 2022 (Lorne Thomson/Redferns) The Polaris Music Prize an annual award for Canada’s best album of the yearhas announced its. Call it a win-win for the writer and singer, spotlighting the talents of both, with this thrilling, often electrifying workĮvery morsel of gravel is audible in the septuagenarian’s voice as, backed by a stellar band, she proves the thrill is far from gone Producer Jordan supports her with a band of pros that never upstages the star. Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. The soul legend presents her loosest and most daring album in years, an affectionate tribute to the underappreciated blues and folk songwriter Randall Bramblettīacked by a superb session band, Lavette continues her renaissance with an album of songs that play to her considerable strengths Part autobiography and homage to the city that made him, MICHAEL is a lushly-produced and defiantly Southern hip-hop album from Atlanta rapper Killer Mike

The album is defined by the quality, craftsmanship, and epic-ness we've come to expect MICHAEL is as much of a personal document as it is a celebration of southern Black music, pulling from gospel, trap and the Dungeon Family lineage It was written and recorded primarily by founding members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Band of Horses: all good-to-great bands, all recipients of Pitchfork raves. If there was nothing left for Powers to say with Youth Lagoon, Heaven Is a Junkyard is a mighty fine slab of nothing Feel Good Lost is the debut studio album by Broken Social Scene. With their uber-melodic songs, the West Coast rockers are the standout new band of the current hardcore punk scene The album is rooted in anger, but the more melodic passages express it without becoming trapped by it
