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June 14th, 2010

Review :: Futensil – Futensil

Futensil
Futensil
(Campaign For Infinity)
Montreal, QC
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From the swampy high-life of Aaron Levin:
Between the legs of a warped B-52s / Cramps hybranoid exists the maligned and twisted vibrations of Montreal’s Futensil. Their atonal jungle of mystic wyrdabilly shivers beneath Emily’s shrieks while Psychic Handshake CIO Graeme Langdon chants his way through a distant spell of psychedelic conjure. The overall emotional damage is an addicting aural experience for any futurotic voodoo voyeur.

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Futensil – AWOL a Go Go

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Futensil – Black Mold

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June 11th, 2010

Review :: Sans AIDS – Got Ideas b/w Flashlights

Sans AIDS
Got Ideas b/w Flashlights
(Pop Echo Records)
Edmonton, AB
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From the (often very) bad ideas of Aaron Levin:
The inaugural single in the Pop Echo / Weird Canada 99 Sevens 7″ series saw a departure from Sans AIDS’ previous one-boy-and-a-couple-of-kick-pedals 90s lonertude. Peter’s a man now (dawg), and he’s got a mustachiod rhythm man amassing Peter’s brilliance into pop canon; gnarled, bassy guitar with trademarked™ lead complexity, erratic pacing, and incredible catchiness forming like Voltron to create the quintessential pop marvel on two sides. SICC+++

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Sans AIDS – Got Ideas

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Sans AIDS – Flashlights

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June 9th, 2010

Review :: Cold Warps – Cold Warps

Cold Warps
Cold Warps
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
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From the pure-pop-for-now-people hook-factory of Paul Lawton:
Brilliant AM radio power-pop that is spot on in so many ways: the songs are simple, the production timeless, the guitar solos sparse, and the back-ups economical. Absolutely nothing is spared; everything cleaned and sacrificed at the alter of the almighty hook. I don’t want to hear power-pop that doesn’t have hooks, and this tape has enough hooks to deprive you from sleep. There is a charming innocence here, and I’m excited to hear where they take the canon they’ve learned here.

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Cold Warps – Hang Up On You

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Cold Warps – Stupid Tattoos

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June 7th, 2010

Review :: The Bad Arts – The Bad Arts

The Bad Arts
The Bad Arts
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
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From the not-so-bad artistry of James Goddard:
Some philosophers believe in a unified totality. For them everything is one thing. That one thing might be something vague or something specific. The Bad Arts seem to believe that every individual song should contain as many musical ideas as possible. Moving through rock and roll tropes like an undergraduate survey course, The Bad Arts cassette is a terse treatise on abrasion tempered by that inescapable haligonian penchant for mathy pop.

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The Bad Arts – Drastic Measures

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The Bad Arts – Long To Repeat

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June 4th, 2010

Review :: Bikeland – Jetfighter

Bikeland
Jetfighter
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
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From the Albertan twangs of Aaron Levin:
Blown-out shit-punk with some strange Albertan twang that is violently addictive. What it lacks in fidelity is made up with sheer attitude as the vocalist tears through the tape’s magnetic digitalia, shrieking within Alberta’s desolate underground. A dense layer of red-line pop imagination surrounds Jetfighter, while it’s sonic liquidation wrenches ear drums and blows speakers.

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Bikeland – Paul Vickers

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Bikeland – Folk and Cherry

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June 4th, 2010

Review :: Hobo Cubes – Hypnotic Infinitum

Hobo Cubes
Hypnotic Infinitum
(Patente)
Montreal, QC
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From the infinite hypnotism of Aaron Levin:
Existing within the submerged foliage of a hyper dimensional psychedelic jungle, Hypnotic Infinitum captures the untamed reverberations emanating from the core of unknowable places. At their centre there exists a triforce; a triumvareate of underwater libraries, astral exotica, and the granular brilliance of experimentation, from which Hobo Cubes emerge as a new wave of brilliant fringe mascinations. Yet another side project of the highly imaginative Francesco de Gallo (with some help from Bernardino Femminielli). The album is packaged beautifully by the die-cut masters from Patente. Amazing.

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Hobo Cubes – Onde Astrali (w/ Bernardino Femminielli)

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Hobo Cubes – AXXA

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June 2nd, 2010

Review :: Silver Dapple / Les Beyond – White Door By Carl

Silver Dapple / Les Beyond
White Door By Carl
(Planet of the Tapes)
Montreal, QC
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From the white doors of Aaron Levin:
Two Albertans find each other in Montreal during a French class while an ex-Shearing Pinx member embarks on a solo project of ambient processed guitar and French language learning. Unexpectedly, the two groups, Silver Dapple and Les Beyond (respectively), share the sides of a brilliant c10 that forges the hidden links between 90s femme-pop and cerebral guitar work-outs. Silver Dapple inject their pop mastery into the hidden teenager scheming within your mind-sphere while Les Beyond thwarts your tomfoolery with twilight mellowtude. All of this accomplished in under 20 minutes care-of Montreal’s latest addition to the cassette scene, Planet of the Tapes.

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Silver Dapple – (Pauses)

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Les Beyond – Brass Knuckled

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Silver Dapple – 2 x 2

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