Anupa Mistry
Writer.
I live in Toronto and write about music, pop culture and communities.
PROJECTS
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Kelis’s Flesh Tone is peak pop, and it deserves more credit
In 2003, Diddy enlisted Kelis for an experiment: a Euro club track called “Let’s Get Ill.” Before EDM penetrated America and before hip-hop and R&B became the polyglot genres they are today, Diddy and Kelis channeled the spirit and sound of raving in Ibiza on a single that’s mostly been lost to time. This was two years before Madonna put out Confessions On A Dancefloor, four years before Britney Spears’s Blackout, and six years before David Guetta templated pop-dance crossovers with his Kelly...
Pitchfork
The Secret Life of Planets
Zaki Ibrahim’s second album is a future-soul marvel that connects sounds across time and oceans, creating thrilling moments of pop music synthesized through her wise and worldly vision.
The most pernicious lies about Canadian culture—that it is fledgling, subpar, or one-note—are self-generated. A month ago, I read a 1964 short story where the late novelist Mavis Gallant describes a photo of an expat family taken on a “Canadian-looking lawn.” It takes skill to make something as dull a patch of...
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Meet Dilly Dally, The Band Behind Toronto's Most Cathartic Rock ...
Meet Dilly Dally, The Band Behind Toronto's Most Ca...
Pitchfork
Junglepussy: Pregnant With Success | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
Junglepussy: Pregnant With Success | Album Reviews ...
Pitchfork
Kelela: Hallucinogen EP | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
Kelela: Hallucinogen EP | Album Reviews | Pitchfork...
The Globe And Mail
Why The Weeknd is truly Toronto's very own - The Globe and Mail
Why The Weeknd is truly Toronto's very own - The Gl...
Pitchfork
Janet Jackson: Unbreakable | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
Janet Jackson: Unbreakable | Album Reviews | Pitchf...
The Guardian
Move over, Bryan Adams: Drake and the Weeknd are the new faces ...
Move over, Bryan Adams: Drake and the Weeknd are th...
Pitchfork
DonMonique: Thirst Trap EP | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
DonMonique: Thirst Trap EP | Album Reviews | Pitchf...
Pitchfork
Mykki Blanco / Various Artists: Mykki Blanco Presents C-ORE ...
Mykki Blanco / Various Artists: Mykki Blanco Presen...
National Post
The Mindy Industrial Complex | National Post
The Mindy Industrial Complex | National Post
Pitchfork
The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the Weeknd | Pitchfork
The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the We...
Pitchfork
FKA twigs: M3LL155X | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
FKA twigs: M3LL155X | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
Pitchfork
Wizkid: "Ojuelegba Remix" [ft. Drake & Skepta] | Tracks | Pitchfork
Wizkid: "Ojuelegba Remix" [ft. Drake & Skepta] | Tr...