After a ten-year wait, Emily Haines has blessed us with a luminescent sophomore album in the form of Choir of the Mind. Haines is best known for her work with indie staples Broken Social Scene and Metric, but what happens when you strip away the layered guitars and booming synths? We’re left with just a piano and Haine’s haunting voice, and that’s more than enough. “People drift away,” sings Haines on the track “Planets.” And, drift away, we do.

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Emily Klatt