Winnipeg s Virgo Rising Get Cosmic on Sixteenth Sapphire EP
Published Mar 11, 2021
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Somewhere below the moon at certain twilight hours, you can see Mercury hanging in the sky like a false star. It s an unassuming little planet with a quiet, complicated pull; the Greeks deemed it the planet of the mind, a nervous messenger that reveals itself only as the light begins to fade. It s also the ruling planet of Virgo, the sign of the meticulous and single-minded, and its influence is felt all over
Sixteenth Sapphire, the spidery debut EP from Winnipeg trio Virgo Rising.
Vocalist and guitarist Emily Sinclair and multi-instrumentalists Lauren and Jenna Wittman make quietly confident, interior music knotty and intricate but never belaboured, their songwriting feels less like a diary than it does a brain-scan, a complex web of light put to tape. Across six tracks of bait-and-switch guitar music,
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Montreal-based producer Bénédicte has very little under her belt, but it s enough to garner significant excitement for her newly released debut EP,
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If you’re reading this, congratulations! You’ve survived the first Mercury Retrograde of 2021. This Retrograde was an especially vicious one, but on
February 20, Mercury Retrograde is finally over and the planet of communication starts moving in the right direction again!
Over the past three weeks, you probably experienced miscommunications between you and your squad, scheduling issues at work, travel delays if you ever left your home (like maybe you got a flat tire or your bus was 30 minutes late), and tech glitches. You likely had an ex (or ex-friend) hit you up too. All of this crap combined makes for a