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Barra Ó Súilleabháin

Barra Ó Súilleabháin is a science writer at Research2Reality and contributes to outlets such as The Media Editor and Button Masher Magazine. If he's not serenading his bedroom with his Spanish guitar, he can be found most evenings buried in his Nintendo with Flying Lotus as the soundtrack.

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EP Review | Sound Strider Embraces Chaos on Occult Electric

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Feb 18, 2019

Sam Waks, better known as Sound Strider, has been tinkering with sonic manipulation since the early 2000s. Back then, he cut his teeth mixing vinyl in all kinds of contexts. Since establishing Sound Strider in 2013, he’s toured across…

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Album Review | American High Get Political on U.N. Article 14

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Feb 7, 2019

A superficial listening of American High’s music is sure to spread the colourful contagion of their brand of pop punk. The trademark harmonies, tight vocals, and head-bopping chord progressions will pique the interest of anyone with even a…

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Album Review | Acidic Base Debuts With Purple Skies

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Feb 6, 2019

We’re all familiar with stories of precocious kids reaching milestones at ages when you were still picking your nose. Few things make a person feel so average. The 12-year-old electronic producer behind Purple Skies is sure to elicit those…

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Album Review | Rose Ann Dimalanta Trio Go Deep on It’s Time

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Jan 16, 2019

Soul/Jazz/funk group Rose Ann Dimalanta are rapidly attaining critical acclaim and success in the touring arena, having just finished up their European leg. Their backgrounds alone should be enough to stoke the interest of any music lover:…

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Album Review | Todd Warner Moore Shows Experience in his Craft on Spark

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Dec 18, 2018

Earning comparisons to Elliott Smith and the Tallest Man on Earth, Todd Warner Moore is a songwriter who harnesses delicate sensibilities and a fundamentalist approach to his art. His unique voice, compositions, and words carry an air of…

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Album Review | LeeSun Grabs Our Attention on Debut Singing You This Song

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Dec 10, 2018

LeeSun is a singer-songwriter from a curiously successful lineage of those who had international upbringings. Originally from Seoul, Korea, her family moved to Canada when she was an infant. From there she progressed to Leeds, England where…

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Album Review | Midwest Soul Xchange Turn a Water Crisis into a Rock Opera with Weakened at the…

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Nov 6, 2018

Pop/folk rock duo, Midwest Soul Xchange, returns in fine form with a rock opera inspired by…the water crisis in Flint, Michigan! Not the most obvious topic for such a genre, but it serves up enough drama to drive the album hand-in-hand with…

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Album Review | Heather Gruber Delivers Catchy Pop Innocence on Dance Into the Desert

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Oct 19, 2018

If the Juno soundtrack got the better of your sentimental side back in 2007, Heather Gruber’s sunny acoustic pop tunes are bound to resonate. Dance into the Desert is a collection of unpretentious and colourful songs designed to be as…

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Album Review | Fields Amaze and Other Strange Music Gets Remastered

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Oct 3, 2018

Patrick Grant’s widely acclaimed album from 2000, Fields Amaze and Other Strange Music, has been remastered and rereleased, and it remains an avant-garde triumph with a bountiful creative spirit, especially as it relates to all things…

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Album Review | For Those Who Craved a Sci-Fi Country Album, I Present Alien Country’s Like My Life…

Barra Ó Súilleabháin Sep 25, 2018

It’s hard to imagine how Liam Torres pitched the concept for Alien Country’s Like My Life Depends on It. But after listening through the finished product, it’s a bit easier to comprehend – this sci-fi country project isn’t as dangerous or…

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