Zachary Houle is a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His journalism has appeared in SPIN magazine, The National Post (Canada), Canadian Business, The Ottawa Citizen. OttawaShowbox.com and countless others. His short fiction has been published in Girls With Insurance, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, Thieves Jargon, Broken Pencil and more. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of a writing arts grant from the City of Ottawa.
Desolate Shrine offer bone crushing riffs along with more graceful periods of exposition, and the polarities swirl around each other, creating a dark vortex of beautiful and expressive material.
This Canadian rap album is stupendous, not just lyrically and stylistically in the vocal delivery, but in terms of what Just Poets do with their sampled material.
You can certainly call Adrift unique, and the title is rather a propos, considering just how laconic the album is, for one, and, for two, just how all compassing and over the map it is.