Apostle of Hustle
Album: Eats Darkness
Label: Arts & Crafts/EMI
Rating: ***½ (out of five)
Andrew Whiteman has always been odd — he channels spirits and once co-owned a bra store in Winnipeg — and he’s used that quirkiness to his advantage. Apostle of Hustle again delivers a boundary-pushing collection of rollicking indie sounds mixed with slick guitars and airy instrumentation. The strangest parts are the fascinating hip hop-like vignettes that seem to make no sense. (On Snakes, a woman says, “The incredible fact about snakes is that they have both boy and girl reproductive parts.” Huh?) Whiteman delivers a set of incredibly catchy tunes.
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Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based web and print writer, editor and blogger working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, writes Metro Canada's weekly Audio Files music column and shares personal finance tips on Rogers TV's Daytime Toronto. He's also written for Maclean's, MoneySense, PROFIT, Chatelaine, Hello Canada, MSN Tech, Yahoo Finance and the National Post. He was recently nominated for five National Magazine Awards, winning one in an online category.
