Art Angels – Grimes

By Laura Friesen With the release of her fourth full-length, Art Angels, everyone’s favourite urban faerie has catapulted herself into the public pop stratosphere. And when I say catapulted herself, it’s in the truest sense of the phrase – the Vancouver native has built her career on her own terms, uncompromisingly hacking out a sonic …

The Visions of Grimes

By Adrienne Yeung Electropop pixie Grimes (a.k.a. Claire Boucher)’s angelic voice has captivated millions of pairs of ears in the past two years with her dark and sugary witch house beats. Less than a year after her latest release, the split LP Darkbloom (with d’Eon), the Montreal songstress is back with her most complex and …

Review: Grimes – Halfaxa

Some savvy bloggers are already declaring Halfaxa “album of the year.” Granted the leaps 2010 has taken in music, for 22-year-old Claire Boucher to emerge so close to the front of the pack suggests how astonishing her sound is. The often haunting, always experimental lo-fi-psych meets R&B-filtered through-one-hundred-graveyards Halfaxa is Grime’s second release, following January’s …

Chromeo :: Playing catch-up with bad taste

by Martyna Turczynowicz They’ve called themselves the “only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture”. Electro-funk/Disco duo Chromeo, have been on the scene since 2002. Their latest album, White Women, was released in May 2014. It features collaborations with Toro Y Moi, Solange Knowles and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. Stylus sat down …

READERS POLL 2012

Stylus Magazine is fucking amped to wrap up another year in music with our FIRST EVER readers poll that combined dozens of top 10 lists sent in by our readers and contributors over the past month! Here are your top twenty selections for the best albums of 2012: #20 // CAT POWER – SUN #19 …