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Provocation always implies that you’re looking for a certain reaction. For instance, if you go into the Air Canada Centre and start screaming “Go Habs, Go!” at the top of your lungs, there’s a certain acceptance on your part of what’s going to happen next. Just like if you smear Nutella across your girlfriend’s face while she’s sleeping, expect a certain rude awakening tomorrow morning. And if you start a blog in which you give your opinion about mu... more

The Girl Ain’t Preggers by Grampall Jookabox Empty Saddle by Cameron Latimer Aeroplanes and Hurricanes by The Physics of Meaning A Song For Ellie Greenwich by Parenthetical Girls Widow’s Peak by Fight Bite Two Silver Trees by Calexico Related reads: Quick Links (This Is Ivy League, Slaraffenland) | of Montreal | Sam Champion | Bella Koshka | This Hand Has Three Fingers: Max Justus, TK Webb & The Visions, These United States |... more

Be warned: I’m still in the process of plugging myself back into reality after such a long vacation. Taking that much time off can really mess with you, give you a sense of freedom which you don’t fully realise you’ll have to trade in once it’s wholly and truly impossible to keep to the roads. Once stuff catches up with you and you capitulate into returning home, the deadlines and demands and projects seem somewhat insignificant and pointless. Maybe that’s why... more

Max Justus - Seven If you’re in a hankering for some lugubrious, instrumental, old-school blooping electronic grooves, Max Justus ’s Seven might be the man to get it done. With backbeats steadier than the Rock of Gibraltar, synth pads glowing like sharp, glittering neon, and keystrikes coming at you like laser beams, it’s your smooth, sunglasses-at-night theme for whenever it’s just you against the naked city. TK Webb & The Visions - Teen Is Still Shaking ... more