Black Ox Orkestar - Everything ReturnsEverything Returns reunites the original Black Ox Orkestar lineup following a 15 year hiatus. Arising from the fertile Montral post punk agit prop scene of the early 2000s, the band comprises Scott Gilmore, Jessica Moss and Thierry Amar of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (Amar also continues to compose and play bass for Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Gabriel Levine of Sackville. Black Ox made two acclaimed albums of roiling acoustic avant folk in the mid

the late great record dealer and collector Walter Geertsen

and Becky Margaret

The Vietnam war and racial turmoil were in high gear

'humbug' is a voyage somewhere new - it's a richer

“Genre fluid like Lianne La Havas and Jamila Woods

” Johanna explains

At the risk of further labouring a rather obvious point

Insomniac featured a heavier and more “punk” sound

alt-rock like the Lemonheads and the Replacements

listening to

revealing the more exploratory and extemporaneous side of her profoundly expressive instrumental lyricism

in Michelle Zauner’s words