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April 28th, 2010

Review :: Tonstartssbandht – Midnite Cobras 7″

Tonstartssbandht
Midnite Cobras 7″
(Psychic Handshake)
Montreal, QC
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From the digital pyramidi of Aaron Levin:
Midnite Cobras is a static departure from Tonstartssbandht’s choralic maximalism. They’ve emerged on Psychic Handshake with a pounding matrix of digimax psychedelia. Tremelodic falsettos soar above driving bass riffs and digital morphisms; a chaotic assemblage of divergent forces pushing diamond-tips to their aural limits. Synthesizers, harmonies, leads, distortion, and tape-warble abound, the brotherly duo file another bewildering disadjectified triumvirate of wave-forms. Do not even question the grip.

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Tonstartssbandht – I’m a Welsh Souper

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Tonstartssbandht – Electric Dragon Sword

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April 27th, 2010

Review :: Dead Wife – Dead Wife

Dead Wife
Dead Wife
(Psychic Handshake / No Vacation)
Montreal, QC
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From the DxWxSxYxHxF of Jesse Locke:
Copping the speed, angst and Xeroxed b&w paste-ups of classic 1980s crust, Dead Wife’s latest 7” hearkens back to the time when a stuttering robot reigned supreme. There’s a healthy dash of Riot Grrrl in their breakneck skuzz as well, and these brats could go toe-to-toe with anyone lurking in East Van’s weirdo punk grotto. Co-released by the always hep Psychic Handshake, newcomers No Vacation and recorded with the help of Choyce from Red Mass, this is a must-grip for the whole family now that Mom is worm food.

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Dead Wife – DxWxSxYxHxF

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Dead Wife – Txt Me

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April 27th, 2010

Review :: The Peelies – Together Forever

The Peelies
Together Forever
(Lava Dance Records)
Montreal, QC
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From the jingle-jango of Aaron Levin:
Post-Yé-yé garage jangle is rarely exported outside of Quebec, an odd fact given the adorable narrative Bande à Part threw together on Montreal’s The Peelies. Their debut album, Together Forever, has a summery, dissonant clangor and (oddly) prairie chic perfect for drawing all over your bud’s face and lighting a car on fire. Together we’ll douce the flames with a squinted, morning warble; it’s an indian summer.

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The Peelies – Merde In French

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The Peelies – Snake on a Man

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April 23rd, 2010

Review :: Omon Ra II / Dirty Beaches – Omon Ra II / Dirty Beaches

Omon Ra II / Dirty Beaches
Omon Ra II / Dirty Beaches
(Campaign For Infinity)
Montreal, QC // Vancouver, BC
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From the staff of (omon) Ra, as wielded by Aaron Levin:
Omon Ra II lands in Montreal and immediately unleashes a seething explosion of post-hyperbole psych-punk: relentless equalizer rejection and blazing guitar shreddery battling for every magnetic millimeter. Meanwhile, Dirty Beaches departs Montreal for sunny Vancouver and metamorphoses into wild nullophonic mystic rockisms; wasted, minimally-greased rockabilly for deadbeat cowboys and vintage thuggery. An odd paring, but this isn’t the first time the Omon moniker sat beside something equally disparate. Mind = blown.

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Dirty Beaches – Black Horses Take 1

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Omon Ra II – Jimmy

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April 22nd, 2010

Review :: Crystal Swells – Crystal Mountain Girls

Crystal Swells
Crystal Mountain Girls
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
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From the crystallic necklace of Aaron Levin:
Tilt the CDR at the right angle and a spasm of light will dance around your retina. An audible effect of the same calibre occurs after immediate Crustal Mountain Girls jammin’. Crystal Swell’s aptly named CDR debut is a prismatic vortex of adjective-pop; a brilliant chromatic collage of splattered pop-punk. Their name had me thinking proto new age piano noddling, so don’t make the same mistake. This ain’t no Stephen Halpern joint.

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Crystal Swells – Trees

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Crystal Swells – Burn it Electric

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April 19th, 2010

Review :: COSMETICS – Soft Skin b/w Black Leather Gloves

COSMETICS
Soft Skin b/w Black Leather Gloves
(Captured Tracks)
Vancouver, BC
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From the chromatic waves of Aaron Levin:
Peril loiters around their underground vision, embracing our maligned audience with unprecedented density. Step sequencers set the pace, with a brooding, low-end urgency driving COSMETICS’ minimal masquerade. Soft Skin pulses like a beacon within some distorted gothic crepuscule; leather, skin, and twilight transmute into anthems of superficial warrants and synthetic indulgence while traces of italo disco and minimal synth dance beneath Aja’s reverberated whispers. Possibly the sexiest underground synth record I’ve heard.

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COSMETICS – Soft Skin

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April 14th, 2010

Review :: The Poly Shores – White Fear b/w Hentai Is Too Art

The Poly Shores
White Fear b/w Hentai Is Too Art
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
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From the biodome of Jesse Locke:
Not since the mercifully short-lived local music in-joke Lorrie Matheson’s Cock has Calgary had a band name as ludicrous as The Poly Shores. All the same, don’t be fooled by their fondness for purple sticky punch as these scrappy, spazzy berzerkers mean their own brand of business. Pitched somewhere between Ponytail, Be Your Own Pet and Toni Basil their debut two-song blast is now available on CD and glorious cassingle. Listen for the stone cold funky basslines, shark-toothed guitars and smart/stupid sloganistic lyrics like “guns don’t kill people, love kills people…” Wheez the juice!

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The Poly Shores – White Fear

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The Poly Shores – Hentai Is Too Art

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April 13th, 2010

Review :: Distant Shores – Suggestation

Distant Shores
Suggestation
(Self Released)
Hamilton, ON
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From the blown-out TASCAM of Aaron Levin:
The unrestrained movements of teenagers ooze a particular audible personality. In your bedroom, staring through your mirror: a bodily succession into total teenage innocence. Dancing, fake microphones and Blondie Best Of‘s. Suggestation, the first from Hamilton’s Distant Shores, rides the crest of this impressionable wave into dreamy, anthemic pop blown through a TASCAM 4-track and dripping with tough-guy posturing. An artifact conjured from the mind of someone who truly believed no one was looking. A++++.

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Distant Shores – Breathing

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Distant Shores – It’s Nothing

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April 13th, 2010

Review :: Huckleberry Friends – Testing

Huckleberry Friends
Testing
(Scotch Tapes)
Toronto, ON
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From the 6.5″ pink flexi of Aaron Levin:
The inaugural 6.5″ fluorescent flesh of Scotch Tapes and Young Guv‘s Lathe Cut Series is a gothic reconnaissance into the arcane marshes of numinous folk-garage. The first 90 seconds of Testing begin the mystic ceremonies of your private mind garden before launching into a fury of tribal magyks and recondite rhythms. It’s a brilliant realignment of the English folk tradition into the disparate, atonal now; an arduous ceremony cut on a 6.5″ slab of pink plastic and limited to 50 copies. Highly recommended.

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Huckleberry Friends – Testing

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April 11th, 2010

Mix :: Wyrd Alberta Mixtape

Wyrd Alberta Mixtape
Compiled by: Drew Marshall
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
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From the midnight-mind of Drew Marshall:
Here’s a mixtape featuring some of the most radical bands in Canada that happen to be performing at the Wyrd Alberta Traveling Festival from April 30 – May 2. Each of the songs were selected from the ever-growing online database of Weird Canada reviews thanks in-large part to the inventor Aaron Levin and his worshiping gypsies. Sole proprietorship of these tracks has long since been sourced out to the general broadband public and for good reason in today’s idea-swapping, music-sharing platform of the digital revolution. And what is it all for? well, as it happens to be we find our actualization in the accumulation of bodies that come together and celebrate our eager-mindless expressions and appreciate those of others. The next great collaboration takes place in a three-part series spanning the ever-expanding, always-contracting province of Alberta from April 30 to May 2. In preparation for this momentous occasion, I have packaged a kinetic stream of glitch-bots and odd entities to please those snow-burried souls back into oblivion. Please enjoy with severe caution. [The mix contains songs by: Nü Sensae, COSMETICS, Grand Trine, Krang, Grown-Ups, Omon Ra, Shearing Pinx, Myelin Sheaths, and Brazilian Money]
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