Jaimie Branch’s final album with Fly or Die shows all she still had to give.
The revelation was delivered in a boxy, low-ceilinged cottage in a park in unhippest east Toronto. It was the spring of 2019, and my ears and expectations were fatigued from decades of too-frequent concertgoing. (An enforced protracted break a year later would alter things, but no one knew it yet.) In principle, a venue like this century-old lawn-bowling clubhouse halfway across town should have offered a hint of novelty. In […]
