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COUNTERPOINT – ISSUE 7

January 19, 2021CounterPointMcGill

Issue 7. Click cover to read!

Issues

Electro Ballads, Animated antics, and Melancholy: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez – Gorillaz

January 12, 2021CounterPointMcGill
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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 →

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Qawwali and Unlearning Self Hate

January 7, 2021CounterPointMcGill

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 →

Opinions

Interview: Lowgo

December 27, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

Interviews

A Life of Tensions: An Interview With Sleepydog

December 1, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

Interviews

Album Review: Wachito Rico – Boy Pablo

November 23, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

Reviews

Creativity in Quarantine: The Pandemic Albums of Taylor Swift & Passenger

November 19, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

Reviews

Interview: CRi

November 11, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

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Idles: Repurposing the Aesthetics of Masculinity

November 9, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

Opinions

Montreal artist Qi Yama enjoying his own musical renaissance

November 7, 2020CounterPointMcGill

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 →

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