Braids
Native Speaker

The much-hyped Native Speaker is almost as good as the blogosphere's underfed, unemployed lit grads would have you think. Wild, ambient, thoughtful, m...

There's something to be said for what one can do with pop music. And not like “oh, that's catchy” or “well that is weird.” but more: “Wow.” An amazeme...

Braids come across as gently inventive and bravely self-sufficient, but their debut ‘Native Speaker’ unfortunately exhibits several signs of arriving ...

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There’s been some backlash to Native Speaker already, but I can’t for the life of me understand why. These open spaces, these syncopated drums, and th...

Hailing from the “Canadian prairies of Calgary,” Braids has arrived, and Native Speaker proclaims that the youthful foursome is good and ready to get ...

Raphaelle Standell-Preston, the frontwomanfor Montreal'spremier pop experimentalists Braids, has a hot, dirty mouth and she's notafraid to let you hea...

Buy at iTunes"Lemonade," the first track on Braids' dreamy debut Native Speaker, begins bubbly and innocently, hazily floating on a bed of effects-lad...

With some albums it’s clear that the band have just put together a selection of hopeful singles, joined together with a random handful of tracks to ma...

Allow Braids to attempt the seemingly impossible: allow them with Native Speaker to engage with you directly, to communicate an idea to you which is b...