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Heavy Issues – How Do You Decide Your Album of the Year List?

Joshua Bulleid
January 2, 2020
Heavy Issues
We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What makes one album “better” than another? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bri... Read More...

Against Change – 2019 in Review

Eden Kupermintz
December 27, 2019
Editorials
Change is overrated. There's this idea that if you look back at the recent and you don't see change in your life, you're doing something wrong. This simple difference comparison is then labelled "growth" and,... Read More...

Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2019

Karlo Doroc
December 26, 2019
Best of 2019, News
Since 2017, we’ve been wrapping up our end-of-year coverage with a Yearbook encompassing our favourite articles from the year; pieces we can be proud of and look back on in the years to come as the very best o... Read More...

Heavy Blog Guest List – Bent Knee

Nick Cusworth
December 23, 2019
Best of 2019
We've focused a lot of attention on Bent Knee the past few years, with very good reason. After finding multiple avid fans on staff with their earlier work all the way through 2017's Land Animal, they really br... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Heavy Blog
December 17, 2019
Best of 2019
This is one of those years where you're writing your end of year summary every day. It's a year which inundated all of us with so much music, and from so many angles and genres, that it almost begged to consta... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – October 2019

Heavy Blog
November 1, 2019
Editors' Picks
If it seems like I always mention how much good music has been released during the previous month that's because that's probably correct. The fact is that we've been enjoying an insane outpouring of music for ... Read More...

“The Kurt Cobain of Memes”: Bent Knee Talk New Album, Tour Mishaps, and the Future of Music

Nick Cusworth
October 21, 2019
Interviews
There are certain privileges and challenges that come when you get to interview a band multiple times. On the one hand, building a relationship and rapport with bands and artists breeds a certain familiarity a... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 10/11/19

Scott Murphy
October 11, 2019
Release Day Roundup
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group&nb... Read More...

Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean

Eden Kupermintz
October 9, 2019
Reviews
Energetic. It's probably one of the most amorphous concepts we use when speaking about music (and, let's be honest, we use plenty of those). It is used to denote a sense of immediacy, urgency, and power in mus... Read More...

Elizabeth Colour Wheel – Nocebo

Eden Kupermintz
March 14, 2019
News
OK, this one is going to be hard to review so I'm just going to start like this: Elizabeth Color Wheel's Nocebo is one of the more earnest records I've heard in a long time. Forget the musicality of it for a s... Read More...
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