Grand Trine / Holy Cobras Grand Trine / Holy Cobras Split Cassette (Bruised Tongue) Montreal, Quebec / Ottawa, Ontario ::web/sounds::

It’s my first time in Montreal and I decide to see AIDS Wolf in their native environment. I spent no longer than thirty-seconds in the venue before my friend Graeme forces me to purchase this split cassette; it’s practically sold out, bra, grip it! There is no preparation for the genre-mashing, sans-wave psychedelia pulsating through Grand Trine‘s side of the magnetic strip. RFID provides the hard-psych soundtrack to an apocalyptic car manufacturing plant, whereas Monochromatic Youth is a brilliant weird-punk interpretation of the 80s minimal synth scene. Grand Trine finish their side with Diamond Body Sunrise; a fuzz-drenched Montreal sound-scape of Red Crayola calibre. Ottawa, Ontario is the unlikely mother of Holy Cobras‘ 13-minute sound-collage-turned-distortion-freak-out. Unfortunately it does not reach the peaks that Grand Trine do. However, they provide a nice counterbalance to Grand Trine’s mental abandonment. Both sides are highly recommended.

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Grand Trine – Monochromatic Youth

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Grand Trine – RFID