Artist: Sorority Noise Album: It Kindly Stopped For Me EP Genre: Acoustic, Indie Label: Topshelf Records In these four songs lie a very modest ancillary of Sorority Noise – one we saw emerge out of their last record Joy, Departed. That portion speaks largely from the backburner end of lyricist and frontman Cameron Boucher’s psyche; […]
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REVIEW: Sorority Noise – ‘It Kindly Stopped For Me’
April 20th, 2016 
Dana Reandelar 
Posted in Features, News, Reviews 
Tags: album review, joy departed, review, sorority noise, top shelf records, Topshelf 
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