'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Tim Kroenert, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Camp Cope, Wet Lips, Two Steps On The Water, Moon Rituals
"The rawness and authenticity that thrums in these songs on record becomes a goddamn avalanche on stage."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Huntly - Feel Better Or Stop Trying
"The aural equivalent to erotic asphyxiation; it leaves you gasping for air and aching for more."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Sweet Jean - Monday To Friday
"In all honesty probably arrived 15 years too late to be described as fresh."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Regurgitator
"The traditional Chinese guzheng, played by Lanzhou-born Mindy Meng Wang, adds an eerie, stringy weirdness to Venus In Furs."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Greys - Outer Heaven
"The Toronto noise-rockers contrast balls-out bluster with experiments in dynamics and structure."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Camp Cope - Camp Cope
"Most effective are the personal touches that reveal Maq's fractured worldview, and the possibility of solace in shared experience."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Have/Hold, Chores, Bush League, Looks Like Rain
'Their set sounds like a stadium show crammed into a pub, while keeping every nuance of the instrumentation..."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Strumbellas - Hope
"The album is fun, captivating and more diverse than you might expect."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Lumineers - Cleopatra
"The spacious arrangements, narrative lyrics and 'live' sound put you right in the room with the band."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jordie Lane, Sweet Jean, Leah Senior
"The band is a picture of restraint as Lane gets his Leonard Cohen on in Sweet Somebody."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Kalacoma, Tetrahedra, VHS Dream
"This is the kind of band Radiohead might hear in a club and think were interesting enough to borrow from."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: DMA's - Hills End
"To the extent that the album is pastiche, it is also both fresh and self-aware."
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