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March 30th, 2010

Review :: PIG – Magnetic

PIG
Magnetic
(Campaign For Infinity)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the magnetic eyes of Aaron Levin:
Continuing with their general disregard for genre fortification, PIG return with a c26 frothing with ataxic punk and chaotic sludge. After a side of perilous adventures through mires of improvised drones and guitar destruction, the quadro deliver a full blast of 90s doom-punk occultism. Part Altered Beast, part Ghosts and Goblins, Magnetic synthesizes the darkest parts of adjective-punk and coagulates them into an eerie resin of fractured sounds. A rare gift stolen from the hand of Moira. NO CONTINUES. GRIP++

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PIG – HEATHERS

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PIG – SOUTHERN DROWN

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PIG – MAGNETIC

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March 25th, 2010

Review :: Various Artists – Farm Team

Various Artists
Farm Team
(Hockey Dad Records)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the Vancouver-sun-hurts-my-eyes of Aaron Levin:
The literal weight of physical music in Canada is staggering and it doesn’t get easier when you move to city-level. My mind is lost within music’s autogamic jungle, paralyzed by the thought of missing rare species. Hockey Dad Records have eased this acute pressure by presenting a breadth of sounds from Vancouver’s emerging underground. From the wired-pop of Piece Pipe to the teen-garage wailings of Dead Ghosts, Farm Team‘s sloppy, unassuming packaging and curatorial prowess is worth any price of admission. It’s a wild world on the west coast. Waddle not through the sea of cosmic noise hippies and grip Farm Team for a quick guide to Vancouver’s adjective-underground. Featuring: White Lung, Timecopz, Piece Pipe, Nü Sensae, The New Values, The Moody Dudes, Hard Feelings, Defektors, Dead Ghosts, Chris-a-riffic, The Bloggers, and B-Lines.

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Piece Pipe – Burned Away

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Dead Ghosts – Spot a Trend

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Timecopz – Walk Alone

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The Bloggers – Crazy Glue

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March 23rd, 2010

Review :: Get a Life Losers – Hot Dad

Get a Life Losers
Hot Dad
(Bruised Tongue)
Ottawa, ON
::web/sounds::


From the questionably-sexy dad-life of Aaron Levin:
Take a wrong turn in Ottawa and you’ll end up on a 15-minute death-march down dead-beat alley with a blizzard of psychedelic punk desolating your ears. Welcome to Hot Dad. Get a Life Losers’ zebratic vortex of blown-out trash is a nihilistic tour through musical sadism; pulsing sounds of careening animals, the inner-howling of our trapped psychosis, and new levels of sonic weaponry. If you have 15 minutes to live and nothing but your fists and a bullshit attitude, Hot Dad is your death-row soundtrack. Certified SICCMADE.

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Get a Life Losers – Metropolis Now

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Get a Life Losers – Freebird

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Get a Life Losers – Stay Outta Centretown

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March 22nd, 2010

Review :: Lab Coast – Wilding

Lab Coast
Wilding
(TRANIST)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the steady wildin’ lifestyle of Jesse Locke:
In a music community as modest as Calgary’s, it seems somewhat baffling how anyone talented can remain subterranean. All the same, that’s the case with the prolific Bug Incision record label and collective, with past projects including the polarizing out-jazz leanings of the Bent Spoon Duo/Trio, sophisticated pop turns of Phil Withers and a plethora of others. Lab Coast is the DIY camp’s latest offshoot, and the group’s debut long-player on satellite label Tranist is a ramshackle channeling of 1990s junk-pop. Cheap-o synth presets, slacker-rock guitar strums and GBV melodies abound, so don’t let this one slip through the cracks.

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Lab Coast – Harm’s Way

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Lag Coast – Walking Through The Park

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March 19th, 2010

Review :: The Friendly Dimension – Choose Your Own Adventure

The Friendly Dimension
Choose Your Own Adventure
(Self-Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the unidimensional freak show of Aaron Levin:
Take a collection of B-sides and rarities by a group with only one official release and you have a snapshot of our wasted youth. Choose Your Own Adventure is a voyeurs guide to summers spent trolling sidewalks for personal anthems. There is truth in the dirty concrete beat to death by the endless footsteps of teenagers. Visit any mall and you’ll hear it: resilient visions of psychotropic folk-rock, catalysts for our lazy, veiled teendom, and subconscious grooves pulling us back to summers of hidden cigarettes and hairspray secrets. We’ve all been teenagers bored to death by a world with too much to offer. Let The Friendly Dimension be your guide. If you want to enter their audible vortex, click here. If you’re suspicious of what they’re offering and would like to win free stuff from the internet, click here.

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The Friendly Dimension – Samurai

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The Friendly Dimension – Hero in my Head

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The Friendly Dimension – Readhair

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March 16th, 2010

Review :: Beard Closet – Amputated Orchestra

Beard Closet
Amputated Orchestra
(Self-Released)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::


From the, well, bearded closet of Aaron Levin:
Amputated Orchestra is a collection of permeating industrial soundscapes emanating from Canada’s cold, concrete nucleus. The focused array of droning apparitions and discretized guitar tones provide the perfect bedding to your next post-apocalyptic jaunt. And If you’re lucky you’ll stumble into a sub-sea-level gregorian nightmare with Beard Closet at the focal point, conjuring an event horizon of dark ambient wizardry. Contact Beard Closet for post-economic guided gours and ambient sorcery apprenticeship opportunities. A+++++.

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Beard Closet – Catholic

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Beard Closet – Holding Tight My Favorite Stalagmite

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March 11th, 2010

Review :: Play Guitar – Cold Crystal Shield

Play Guitar
Cold Crystal Shield
(Campaign For Infinity)
Montreal, QC // Halifax, NS // Whitehourse, YK
::web/sounds::


From the Mithril Shields of Aaron Levin:
Living in Alberta, I associate Calgary with the strange angular pop moves found on Cold Crystal Shield. In fact, I’m starting to believe the Calgary sound is just a weird amalgamation of Montreal’s pop experiments, Halifax’s 90s obsession, and Yukon’s cold isolation. It’s all summarized brilliantly by Play Guitar with their combination of incredibly catchy guitar lines and anthemic vocal harmonies, the whole mess being driven down midnight highways and rural avenues. I say rural because I can definitely hear that 90s Halifax honky-tonk pop-rock and it’s awesome. Keep your cold, crystalized eyes out for the Play Guitar LP, coming soon!

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Play Guitar – Stay and Haunt

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Play Guitar – Different Job

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March 10th, 2010

Review :: Krang – They Came From Planet D

Krang
They Came From Planet D
(Cassettes Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the Planet D residing citizen named Jesse Locke:
With their second transmission from the heart of the black hole sunrise, Edmonton’s Krang continue their clusterfuck of stoner rock, noise-haze and squiggly electronics. The band’s debut self-released EP was a voyage in its own right, but until now, they’ve never been able to bottle the total gnarlitude of the extended space jams doubling as their live shows. Happily, with the addition of fourth member Dean “The Ram” Watson on guitar, this five-song flummox released via Eamon McGrath’s Cassettes Records has finally captured the experience on CD-R. Faithful followers will recognize the bass line from “Farmer” within seconds, along with Krang’s trademark echoed harmonica. Cold Bebop’s standout banger “Ships” has been re-recorded with the addition of Watson’s desolate licks, and finally “Snakes on the Brain” closes things off with some furious Danzig-on-psychedelic-fungi freak-outs. Best of all, the new and improved line-up can still melt faces live.

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Krang – Farmer

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Krang – Snakes on the Brain

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March 9th, 2010

Departure :: EMILY – Neat and Tidy in Your Mind (1985)

EMILY
Neat and Tidy in Your Mind
(Mo=Da=Mu)
Vancouver, BC
Originally Released: 1985


From the generally untidy mind of Aaron Levin:
Destructive guitar congruance. Menacing synthetic tones. Echo-to-infinity vox processing. Extirpated TASCAM wreckage. Neat and Tidy in My Mind is the most relentless barrage of left-field maximal synth North American has ever seen. It’s the second cassette by solo, multi-format Vancouver artist Emily Faryna, whose visionary digital mythics have been obscured by Canada’s under-documented vintage cassette scene. Her conical prose hovers darkly over Neat and Tidy‘s minor-key delirium, brewing the magnetic urgency coursing through its self-producing ether; a last, desperate attempt to convince the world that the mind’s ailments exist on the outside. It’s a gateway drug into the underbelly of a hyper intimate experimental underground torn from the pages of Neuromancer and, to me, the flagship vehicle for the vanguard of fringe-Canada. Words left to describe Neat and Tidy in Your Mind: ambitious, singular, forward-thinking, powerful, intense, and prodigious. There is a reissue in the works.

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EMILY – Who Cares

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EMILY – Compromise

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March 4th, 2010

Review :: Alienation – 2010

Alienation
2010
(Patente)
Quebec City, QC
::web/sounds::


From the Jabroka-filled pockets of Aaron Levin:
Beneath Alienation’s beautifully die-cut packaging (typical Patente faire) lays a harrowing journey into Quebec’s multi-format experimental scene. Alienation is the audible outlet by visual artist Simon Langevin. Simon’s autodidactic approach to the genre’s freedom gives 2010 a welcomed erraticism resulting in a strange mix between multi-format, avant-meanderings and static post-techno beat collages. Add an 11-minute minor-key ethereal floater and you’ve got yourself a veritable trip through Simon’s consciousness; corrugated tunnels lined with deep, dark textures appropriate for any hang-out setting not involving: smiles, fun, or not-goths. Killer psychedelic artwork to boot. +1 Patente.

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Alienation – Track 03

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Alienation – Track 06

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