Reviews

Reading Time: 3 minutesFive albums to groove, chill, and definitely not study to this summer Max Szyc | Fulcrum Contributor   The Knife Shaking the Habitual | Mute Records Sweden’s The Knife joins a wave of artists like David Bowie and Daft Punk who made long-awaited returns in 2013 after lengthy periods of (mostly) silence. While it was …

Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum critics take on a comic book and a graphic novel for those who know there’s no shame in reading books with pictures.

Reading Time: 3 minutes101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper Yann Martel | Vintage Canada 4 / 5 YANN MARTEL, THE author of Life of Pi, released another book in 2012 that was a polar opposite of his previous novel. 101 Letters to a Prime Minister is a non-fiction work that features the …

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe PepTides Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe | Self-released 4 / 5 REVENGE OF THE Vinyl Cafe, from Ottawa’s own nine-piece outfit The PepTides, is an unusual album. What’s important to realize is that it isn’t really an album; it’s a soundtrack, written and recorded to coincide with each short story in Stuart McLean’s book …

Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum music critic Max Szyc reviews long-awaited new releases from Irish alt-rock legends My Bloody Valentine and Canadian death metal old-timers Voivod.

Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum film critics review the hit-and-miss humour of Identity Thief and the garden-variety romance of Safe Haven.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s reviews include the much-anticipated sophomore effort from A$AP Rocky and the controversial 9/11 film Zero Dark Thirty.

Reading Time: 4 minutesCheck out film reviews for Django Unchained and Hyde Park on Hudson along with music reviews of Why? and Scott Walker.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s reviews include new efforts from Converge and Flyleaf and the solo debut from Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s music reviews include the triumphant return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the new breakup guide from Taylor Swift.

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