“When Tashiina and Billy sat down, they appeared weary, as though they had ridden in on horseback. They had just landed in Edmonton that afternoon, and only two nights before, opened for Shame at Montreal’s Club Soda. After letting them settle in, I made an unfunny joke about how I’m going to give them a rapid-fire round of questioning, they laughed politely, and we began.”

The Cups N Cakes Network’s Ned Kroczynski caught up with Ribbon Skirt before their performance at Winterruption YEG 2026.

Pocket Sized is a tight project. Its songs fit together thematically, musically, and everything flows smoothly from one song to the next. The EP is nothing more than it needs to be, but that’s fine; in fact, it’s great.

Read Brandon Kruze’s take on Purple City, presented by Up + Dt Festival in Edmonton.