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“It’s a whimsical sound that gives you those butterfly feelings, along with a helping of unresolved dread.”

“It’s not fun music, but it awakens the darker parts of the mind craving something strange.”

“This album throws convention out a high-rise window, where it smashes onto Old Montreal’s unforgiving cobblestones.”

An at-once modernized and ’80s-tinged sapphic fairy-tale version of the song from the 2000s is “ready to take up space in the queer pop world.”

“The French duo’s new effort (out today) is easily their most consistently enjoyable project since their instant-classic 2007 debut Cross.”

“It’s rare to find a band that sounds and feels completely distinctive, but DahL, an experimental trip-hop/post-punk group from Montreal, is one such band.”

“The highly anticipated debut album from this scrappy Montreal garage pop band is finally upon us, and it was well worth the wait.”

“If anyone is going to go out on a limb and bother having fun making a self-aware mark on Americana, I’d put my moon money on Queen Bey.”

“Montreal four-piece Whoredrobe is fit and ready to explode, with echoes of bands like Anthrax, the Slits, Black Flag and Bikini Kill all rolled up into a ball of chaotic energy.”

“The ‘Collard Greens’ rapper’s latest is a steadier diet of seasoned gangsta soul.”