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July 17th, 2009

Safe language.

Feral Children - Currents Feral Children
Currents
(Self Released)
Saskatoon, SK
::web/sounds::

Feral Children is the 2009 electronic Tim Buckley; a forward-thinking, genre-hybridization of trends existing in the ethers of our musical consciousness. Where Tim Buckley channeled jazz, folk, and psychedelia to produce “emotional bellowing from the depths of a drug vortex” (dr. lloyd – waxidermy), Feral Children interpolates the fluxes of psychedelic-pop brewing on the borders of electronic music. His new songs are poppier, thicker, and voluminous; yet they conjure the same looping-pedal+drum-machine pop-lysergia present on his first album – now with more low-end, more psych, and more dance. It’s a welcomed progression we rarely see on sophomore albums. A+++++++, fast shipping, will listen again.

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Feral Children – Safe Language

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Feral Children – Your Head Inside My Voice

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July 15th, 2009

Brotherly woodpact.

GOBBLE GOBBLE - Neon Graveyard GOBBLE GOBBLE
Neon Graveyard
(Bart Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::

There is nothing you can do to prepare for the body-vibrato-inducing onslaught of the 32-bit gravitron-pop that comprises GOBBLE GOBBLE. When I was 16 I saw Carrot Top live in Las Vegas with my mom; we sat next to Steven Speilberg’s brother and were told not to look at him. The whole time I was listening to The Jackson 5 on cassette and thinking about seeing Ed Tempelton as we drove through Huntington Beach. The sum of all these experiences (summer, confusion, pop, skateboarding, absurdity, humanity, my mom, and Carrot Top) is my only point of comparison to the aural space-scape of GOBBLE GOBBLE’s debut. For those of you who are not me, Neon Graveyard is like a combination of Dan Deacon and the new Dirty Projectors; experimental pedal pushing meets 91.7 The Bounce FM pop sensibilities. It’s incredibly lasting and rewarding after multiple listens (unlike Carrot Top). The live show is a different entity in itself; brain-altering displays of fluorescence with wine-bottle percussion, fiber optics, and a lot of dancing. GOBBLE GOBBLE for president.

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GOBBLE GOBBLE – Meteor Eschat

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GOBBLE GOBBLE – o Sacred Dandruff

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July 14th, 2009

Dad. I want to die.

York Redoubt - Cheap Funerals York Redoubt
Cheap Funerals
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::

Halifax has this propensity to insert pop into everything it produces. Maybe it’s because the musical land-scape is like a giant venn-diagram with every genre-cloud fornicating until the only thing left is post-frat-orgy-remorse. Who cares? At the end of the day you end up with boundary pushing music that is incredibly accessible. York Redoubt’s debut cassette, Cheap Funerals, takes the insane time-changes and chord progressions often seen in arithmetic-rock and calculates its anti-derivative (with respect to time) to produce math-pop; it’s weird, it’s changing, it’s catchy. There are red-line vocals, noise freak-outs, songs that sound like pre-Sook-Yin-The-Wedge, panned-guitars, and more! And they’ve fit it all on a four-song cassette. Bravo!

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York Redoubt – Guilloteens and I

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York Redoubt – Dad

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July 13th, 2009

Review :: The Pink Noise – Dream Code

The Pink Noise - Dream Code The Pink Noise
Dream Code
(Sacred Bones)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

The Pink Noise’s first full-length takes off from the early-80s minimal synth scene and molds the sound into something entirely post-00. The strange mix of basement-macabre, drum machine lonertude, and red-line reverb, definitely command your attention as he weaves through echoing layers of game-show-organ-grinding and digital-tropicalia-minimalism. The squid on the cover is certainly apt; you will be pulled in every direction and forced to confront the boundaries of musical genre. Or it’ll all just sound like a messy teenage bedroom.

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The Pink Noise – Put On

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The Pink Noise – Cobra Snake

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July 13th, 2009

I was up all night making this stupid press-release.

Which is why there hasn’t been any new reviews over the weekend. I assure you, there will be some nice reviews coming monday night!

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July 10th, 2009

Take you up. On a date.

Mount Analog - Gold AK Mount Analogue
Gold AK
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::

After seeing Mount Analogue live in Edmonton I accidentally got one of their songs stuck in my head. For five days. I would saunter into work chanting victims, victims, victims…!! People were staring at me, my boss was angry, the volunteers I work with seemed distant and reluctant to file CDs in the CJSR library. Meanwhile, I’m chanting, chanting, chanting and suddenly I started growing a beard and writing down schemes for a religious cult. I wanted other people to chant with me. A chapel full of them. With a backing band (preferably Mount Analogue if they’re available). Victims, victims, victims! Well, thankfully, after a while the Contortions-fused, four-on-the-floor disco-or-is-it-art-punk drama of Mount Analogue reached it’s religious zenith and ascended down to normality radality. That is, until they toured through Edmonton with a new cassette. And, well, the cycle begins anew. Victims, victims, victims…

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Mount Analogue – The Stranger + The Fall

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Mount Analogue – Mother Fluxus

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July 9th, 2009

Blistering patience.

KNOTS - The Blistering Sun, The Pale Moon, Hahahaha KNOTS
The Blistering Sun, The Pale Moon, Hahahaha
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::

It takes an incredible amount of patience to make an album like The Blistering Sun, The Pale Moon, Hahahaha. It’s careful and deliberate; calculated without losing any ounce of intimacy; sparse, yet still engaging. Its minimalism is like a barren landscape whose terrain takes great form as you listen closer; diamonds, cacti, and beautiful insects crawling amongst the sandy-chords and phased vocals. There is a great amount of subtly that makes KNOTS so much more than a ‘guy with his guitar making a loner folk album in his basement.’ KNOTS delivers singer songwriter material that helps us forget how cliche the genre has become.

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KNOTS – Happiness

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KNOTS – Satiated

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July 7th, 2009

The spelling is entirely Canadian.

The Neighbourhood Council - Set Pieces EP The Neighbourhood Council / BRAIDS
Set Pieces EP
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::

They’re young. Most of The Neighbourhood Council (now called BRAIDS) were in high-school when this album was recorded live-to-air on CJSW in Calgary. An amazing feat considering three out of the five tracks are over 7 minutes long. They’re long, but the least bit boring or repetitive. The songs weave, transform, and flow in a brilliant, sometimes experimental, fashion. It’s a mellow ride, so get comfy as you’ll quickly arrive at the kind of pop album you wish you could be making now, let alone when you were 17 years old and watching Japanese animation in your parents basement (true story). The Neighbourhood Council became BRAIDS sometime this year and will be conducting a mass exodus to Montreal. I’m posting the two shorter tracks, but they’ll give you the right idea.

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The Neighbourhood Council – She Brave Soul

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The Neighbourhood Council – Vendevel

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July 6th, 2009

I work in a dungeon on the side.

Ahna - Red Tape AHNA
Red Tape
(Thankless)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

Without a doubt AHNA’s Red Tape was in my top 5 independent releases of of 2008. Anju and Graeme, the two components which make AHNA, attack minimalism armed with a violin and bass guitar. The violin provides hidden structure within the undulating currents of bass-drone while they march forward into a triumphant summit; quick-victors atop a vertex of creative streams. Or, perhaps, a vortex? Either way, the two-track, 20-minute cassette is a rewarding, engaging, and wonderful listening experience. Red Tape is a rare treat in the experimental cosmos worth returning to; something we will surely look back on as wisps of distortion wash away our memories. I just wish it was longer!

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AHNA – i work in a dungeon

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AHNA – side job

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July 6th, 2009

Weird Canada VS Slice of Life Edmonton == Double Blog Launch Party :: THUR JULY 23!

Well, it’s time to take this little blog out and into the infinity. Thankfully, I will not be making this adventure on my own. Thanks to the folks behind Edmonton’s only pizza blog, Slice of Life Edmonton, Weird Canada and Slice of Life Edmonton will be having a double blog launch party with live music inside a pizza place. It will be fun, exciting, and delicious. Joins us and guests for a slice of life in Edmonton. Details below!

Weird Canada & Slice of Life Edmonton

… PRESENT …

Double Blog Launch Party!!! At STEEL WHEELS!!!

http://www.weirdcanada.com

http://sliceoflifeedmonton.wordpress.com

… WITH …

Holzkopf (Edmonton, AB / Vancouver, BC)
Feral Children (Saskatoon, SK)
Sans AIDS (Edmonton, AB)
swwords (Edmonton, AB)

Come and celebrate the double-launch party of the century. Weird Canada, a new endeavor by musical enthusiast Aaron Levin, is an attempt at reviewing some of the sparkling commodities of the Canadian underground. On the other hand, Slice of Life Edmonton is simply a pizza blog; Edmonton’s only pizza blog with a flair for the obscure and unknown.

What better way to celebrate these new projects than by discovering the sounds of the underground and eating a pizza at the same time!! Oh, did we mention it’s happening at Steel Wheels?! When was the last time you ever saw a show there?

Holzkopf
weird canada review
File Under: Dual-Cannon Pony-Tail Noise Dance

Feral Children
weird canada review
File Under: Drum-Machine Psych

Sans AIDS
weird canada review
File Under: Solo Lo(ner)-Fi

swwords
swwords on myspace
File Under: Burnt lo-fi wannabe.

Monies: $8
Doors: 7:30pm
Bands Start: 8pm (sharp)

Weird Canada & Slice of Life Edmonton Present FERAL CHILDREN + HOLZKOPF + SANS AIDS + SWWORDS

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