While the group effort is what truly sets this album apart as one of the best of this very early year, Doiron’s lyrics and compositions manage to remain fresh throughout the album, and her commanding presence over the album, despite the aforementioned fragility, is all the more impressive.  Full text...

What a pleasant surprise that the good morning half of the equation arrives with Woke Myself Up, as different from its predecessor as espresso is to NyQuil.  Full text...

It's a gamble in a look-at-me music world, but songs like "Me And My Friend" (guess what it's about) never suffer from the conceit that the whole planet wants to hear them. Those with a taste for the unadorned, pretty, and emotionally striking, though, couldn't do much better.  Full text...

Doiron gets nostalgic  Full text...

Heartfelt and intimate in tone, her songs are always engaging, and her latest, Woke Myself Up, finds her in fine form.  Full text...

The production, though minimal, brings out Doiron's deeply hidden "bad" side (especially on "Don't Wanna Be / Liked by You") by crunching out the bass and allowing brief psych rambling.  Full text...

Singing mom Julie Doiron, former bassist for the now-disbanded Canadian indie group Eric's Trip, returns from a short hiatus with Woke Myself Up, a rather trebly but fine-tuned acoustic recording produced by Eric's Trip's Rick White and featuring members of the band playing on all but three tracks. What, at first, seems to be a domestic-themed release (the title track spins an ostensibly autobiographical yarn about a sleepless mother who weeds, reads, and helps her fallen daughter back into bed in the middle of the night) ultimately reveals itself to be a collection of broken love songs.  Full text...