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Lydia Ainsworth Is Dance-Pop’s Reigning Queen of Darkness

Lydia Ainsworth Is Dance-Pop’s Reigning Queen of Darkness

If you’re not already part of the dark, dreamy electro-pop cult of Lydia Ainsworth, let this be your initiation. Today (May 21), the Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and producer shares her fourth album,Sparkles & Debris, and it’s just as dazzling and dystopian as its name suggests. Ainsworth crafted the album across several cities and many years, […]

Dorothea Paas Writes Dreamy, Devastating Love Songs About Not Being in Love

Dorothea Paas Writes Dreamy, Devastating Love Songs About Not Being in Love

Love has a long half-life. That’s one of the major takeaways from Canadian singer-songwriter Dorothea Paas’s debut album, Anything Can’t Happen, out today (May 7) via Telephone Explosion. The record — crafted between 2016 and 2019 — finds the Toronto native spinning love and longing into gorgeous, ruminative guitar pop that will take your breath […]