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September 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Slam Dunk – Slam Dunk

Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk
(Fan Club Music Club)
Victoria, BC
::web/sounds::


From the bear cub of Joni Sadler:
Slam Dunk may still be fairly young as far as bands go, but this gang of scrappy Victorians has certainly lost no time in recording some killer jams and taking the road by storm. With gang-shouted choruses, twisting fuzz guitar melodies, and seemingly endless energy, these dudes are proving seriously hard not to love. Viva Slam Dunk, indeed.

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Slam Dunk – Only Fun

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Slam Dunk – Feral Child

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September 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: AHNA – AHNA

AHNA
AHNA
(Soldier Pumps // Broadway to Boundary)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the cult of Aaron Levin:
In the valley between post-apocalyptic nihilism and ritual suicide resides a devastating sonic philosophy bred for mental undoing. Push the needle into AHNA’s polyvinyl debut and let this doomic celebration course through your mental veins. As the threads of fybre binding your consciousness burn away, AHNA’s desolate bellowing will forge new paths within the fermented entrails of your guttural chaos. Sip the froth of your own undoing and relinquish AHNA’s morose gin. \m/GRIP\m/

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AHNA – I Saw You

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AHNA -Confederation

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September 28th, 2010

Departures :: Fraser & Debolt – Fraser & Debolt with Ian Guenther

Fraser & Debolt
Fraser & Debolt with Ian Guenther
(Columbia)
??, ON
Originally Released: 1972


From the tennis player waltz of Aaron Levin:
For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, Allan Fraser and Daisy Debolt’s debut resonates with a wyld collection of weirdos: hard-core “psych-folk” collectros, county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts alike. For years I’ve marveled over the LP and its audience without resolution. It could be the innocently tuneless harmonies, the dissonant acoustic jangle, or their harrowing explorations into freak-folk. But it’s the songwriting that gets me every time; dualic weaves of fringe rurality; a surrealist vision of Canada rooted in the warm waters of Ontario; a haunting, minor-key acoustic delirium irrigated with country ballads and freak-folk shreddery. You’ll never understand it. But eventually it’ll happen. I’ve never been wrong with this one. Top 10 dead or alive LP. They do a devastating cover of “Don’t Let Me Down” with an alternate take on the American promo 45. Surprisingly not-very-rare in Western Canada.

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Fraser & Debolt – Waltz of the Tennis Players

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Fraser & Debolt – Dancehall Girls

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Fraser & Debolt – Gypsy Solitaire

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September 24th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Grown-Ups – Not Friends

Grown-Ups
Not Friends
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the grunge-core of Jesse Locke:
Funded by the sales of a surprise success goof, Calgary’s hurly-burly Grown-Ups self-released this four-song 7” ripper. For those paying attention, it’s business as usual: fast, catchy songs (this time they’re calling it ‘grunge core’), angry dad vocals and wise-ass lyrics with topics ranging from pyramid schemes to insomnia to real talk between grown-ass men (plus nods to Neil Young and Dr. Steve Brule!). The only thing likely to be more of a no-brainer is the Dude Ranch cover set they’ve announced for Halloween. 500 copies, red or clear vinyl.

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Grown-Ups – We’re Not Friends

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Grown-Ups – The Mess

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September 22nd, 2010

New Canadiana :: Women – Public Strain

Women
Public Strain
(Flemish Eye // Jagjaguwar)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the pubic strain of Aaron Levin:
From the strained, harrowing winces fluttering throughout “China Steps,” to the obliterated guitar wrenching on “Drag Open,” Women’s sophomore perturbation is a decimating paradigm shift within pop musicalia’s gothic waters. Mesmeric bass lines forge an unstoppable avant-pop matrix transfiguring all notions of stringed cacophony; harmonies dust their standing waves with glimmers of luminous decay; and an endless supply of static coalesces their rock abandon. For all its minor-key desolation, Public Strain is not without its hopeful glimmers; the singular listening experience is cemented with bursts of sunlight through splintering corsets of lysergia. Women have pushed broken destroyed annihilated all boundaries to liberate a brilliant array of chromatosed sinusoids.

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Women – China Steps

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Women – Drag Open

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September 21st, 2010

Arbutus Records & Weird Canada @ Pop Montreal

Arbutus Records Showcase
Pop Montreal 2010
(Thursday September 30, 2010 @ The Rialto Theatre)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the new indie of Aaron Levin:
In the closing tides of 2010 there are few festivals left. And as this little corner of a website gleaned a few weeks ago, Canada’s premiere indie-music festival (Pop Montreal) came through with a succinct and telling slogan: Weird is the New Indie. The obvious correlation is incidental, but the shifting focus to emerging music is a welcomed modulation in agenda. And to further drive the point home, Pop Montreal and Weird Canada will be presenting a showcase from one of Canada’s furthest reaching boutique imprints. Arbutus Records (home to Sean Nicholas Savage, Grimes, Silly Kissers and many more) has become an asylum for many westward ex-pats flourishing within the inexplicable fringe-pop spectrum and has occupied prime real estate within Weird Canada’s own borders. The label has grown from an e-mail address and a cd burner to a veritable force within the diy pop explosion running its course through our collective consciousness. Arbutus’ materials have appeared on Pitchfork, Gorilla VS Bear, Altered Zones, Stereogum, Weird Canada (ha!), etc. and I can say without hyperbole that many within the indie music community are anxiously awaiting to hear their future. So, with much excitement, I’d like to encourage all of our readers in-and-around the Montreal area to attend both Pop Montreal and one of the best showcases during the five-day festival. Sebastian Cowan has worked many magicks; for that we love him dearly. Congratulations!

Pop Montreal & Weird Canada Present
Arbutus Records Showcase
SILLY KISSERS
GRIMES (album release)
POP WINDS
BLUE HAWAII
Date: Thursday September 30th @ 9pm
Location: The Rialto Theatre
Price: Five Dollars (available at Phonopolis & Cheap Thrills)

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September 17th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Ryan Kirk – Microtonal Freewaves

Ryan Kirk
Microtonal Freewaves
(Divorce Records)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the mind-splintered-like-a-prism of Zachary Fairbrother:
Ryan Kirk is a graduate of the Dalhousie University Composition Program. He regularly plays with The Ether and OmmaCobba, and has collaborated with fellow 902 weird folker Gown. As part of the Divorce Records FreeWave series, Kirk sees his first release drifting from his earlier drone explorations (See Wargaz) into the further regions of modality, timbre, and tuning. Microtonal Freewaves plays with the ideas of tuning ala minimalist composers like La Monte Young and mainlines it with neo-folk stylings, producing an audible trace akin to the spots on blue cheese. The opening track “Weekends” starts with a beautiful field recording of the Nova Scotian landscape, setting the album’s tone with a lone slide guitar. Juxtaposed with these are excerpts of his saxophone quartet and piece for bowed strings, both being beautiful sheets of spectral harmonics. The album clocks in at just below 22 minutes but definitely feels like you’ve traveled a long way when it’s finished. Recommend listening straight through. In solitude. Absolutely NO computer speakers!

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Ryan Kirk – Heterodynous for Saxophone Quartet [Excerpt]

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Ryan Kirk – Weekends

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September 16th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Brazilian Money – Doing What I Want EP

Brazilian Money
Doing What I Want EP
(Totally Disconnected)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the macaroni make-out party of Jesse Locke:
For their inaugural platter, Edmonton’s newest 7” slingers dish up this piping hot four song EP from the boys in Brazilian Money. Former Mitts/Wicked Awesomes! bassist Garrett Johnson is the focal point of these friendly neighbours’ seam-splitting double-drumming skronk squall, driven by hooky holler-along choruses, sassy cackling multi-tracked vocals and even a chug-a-lug acoustic shanty in closer “Bones.” 300 copies, and worth its weight in reais.

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Brazilian Money – Bones

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Brazilian Money – Doing What I Want

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Brazilian Money – Macaroni Makeout Party

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September 15th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Stalwart Sons – Burn Daylights Like Torches

Stalwart Sons
Burn Daylights Like Torches
(Revolution Winter)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the burnt prairedom of Aaron Levin:
Strange currents of prairie hard-rock percolate this hooking jaunt through hardcore’s progressive pastures. Don’t let them convince you otherwise: Burn Daylights Like Torches is a phenomenal rock record fit for turntables of all dimensions. They maintain their uncanny can-rock hookery through bails of crushing guitar riffs and agropop vocals, readying your inner 90s-teen for summer streams of melodic bass and jazz drummery. It’s the perfect answer to Halifax and Montreal’s wave of mathrock tompoppery and the only reverberations in this context imbued with Alberta’s pastoral identity. GRIPORBEGRIPPED.

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Stalwart Sons – In Dust

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Stalwart Sons – Canadian Railroad Epitaph

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September 13th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Certain Breeds // Terror Bird – Walk in Sleep b/w Who’s Sorry Now

Certain Breeds // Terror Bird
Walk in Sleep b/w Who’s Sorry Now
(Global Symphonic)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds:: // ::web/sounds::


From the unapologectia of Aaron Levin:
There couldn’t be a better pairing of 80s pop glamor. Driving Hollywood-vibes permeate both somber-summer jams from these Vancouver new-jacks. Certain Breeds emerge subtly with their 50-second build into devastating romantic nihilism; urgent bass-lines, sweeping synthetic horns, and a latter-third that blows our cohesive cosmic identity into brilliant shards of chromatic dust. Terror Bird‘s side is a welcomed breather, moving seamlessly into beguiled piano-pop balladry, pulling this strange gaunt through iconic anthemy back into our future reality. Limited, colour vinyl versions exist for the hasty gripper!

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Certain Breeds – Walk in Sleep

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Terror Bird – Who’s Sorry Now?

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