COUNTERPOINT – ISSUE 7
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Electro Ballads, Animated antics, and Melancholy: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez – Gorillaz
By: Ovo Grant-Oyeye In January of this year, I was pleasantly surprised by a new Gorillaz single sitting on my YouTube homepage. When you get into an artist that already has a substantial body of work, it’s an interesting experience… Continue Reading
Qawwali and Unlearning Self Hate
By: Ammar Mooraj I grew up surrounded by mostly white people. My friends, classes, and teachers were overwhelmingly white, and I don’t mean purely in skin tone. I mean culturally. I was raised with a real underlying sense that Euro-derivative… Continue Reading
Interview: Lowgo
By: Hayley Foote At 21 years old, Montreal artist Lowgo has almost 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His remix of Ezra Lewis’s “Wishes” has over 700,000 listens. However, what’s most impressive is that, with the exception of one song, he’s… Continue Reading
A Life of Tensions: An Interview With Sleepydog
By: Ammar Mooraj Xavier “Sleepydog” Hall is one of the strongest examples of how art reflects the artist. Sleepydog, for the unaware, is an artist known for his midwest-emo/math rock music. His most popular video on YouTube has 2.2 million… Continue Reading
Album Review: Wachito Rico – Boy Pablo
The past few years saw Nicholas Munöz, better known as Boy Pablo, infiltrate the indie-rock music scene with a steady release of singles and EPs. That’s why his accumulated fan base was more than happy to finally see the release… Continue Reading
Creativity in Quarantine: The Pandemic Albums of Taylor Swift & Passenger
Since mid-March, when the world was put on hold, many people have been left alone with their thoughts. Some people used this time to pick up new hobbies, learn a language, or binge-watch a TV show, while others have used… Continue Reading
Interview: CRi
By Hayley Foote After two years in the making, Montreal artist CRi has finally released his debut album. A magical, hopeful, electric, adventurous, and intoxicating affair, Juvenile solidifies a career-catapulting entrance into the pop-electronic scene as well as the beginnings… Continue Reading
Idles: Repurposing the Aesthetics of Masculinity
For a while now, intellectuals far more qualified than myself have been saying that masculinity is in crisis. On the right, they see the fight against toxic masculinity as an attack on all masculinity, and, on the left, there has… Continue Reading
Montreal artist Qi Yama enjoying his own musical renaissance
If you listen to Qi Yama’s music, his influences are pretty clear. He takes after some of the more melancholic hip-hop artists of the 21st century like Frank Ocean, Kid Cudi, and 808s-era Kanye, making a sort of lo-fi sad… Continue Reading