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December 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Construction & Destruction – Mutatis Mutandis

Construction & Destruction
Mutatis Mutandis
(The Quarantine)
Port Greville, NS
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From the mutant mutandis of James Goddard:
Rural art-rockers radiating traces from a secluded homestead hanging over the Atlantic Ocean. Fresh like the crunch of first steps in burnt snow. Mutatis Mutandis is Construction & Destruction’s fourth bass-led caravan of hyper-text lyrics, dense guitar riffs, detached drumming and Kohakian meditations. It takes a moment to reach the place they’re coming from. Venture forth and see for yourself.

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Construction & Destruction – The Oracle

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Construction & Destruction – Bear

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December 29th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Young Santas – BEEN-HUR VHS EP

Young Santas
BEEN-HUR VHS EP
(Self Released)
Edmonton, AB
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From the chariot riding of Aaron Levin:
Buried within this A-Frames-inspired jaunt through angular hell is a brilliant vocal-morphing of popular magic and succinctly details the brilliant shapes conjured from this post-everything blip on the Edmonton radar. Guitar wrenching, gutteral chortling, and swashes of western abandon litter the EP’s difficult humour, pushed to further limits by the absurd video that accompanies the whole travesty. Awesome.

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Young Santas – Surfband Stevens

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Young Santas – Surfband Stevens

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December 28th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Metz – Negative Space

Metz
Negative Space
(We Are Busy Bodies)
::web/sounds::


From the megative zpace of James Goddard:
Negative Space‘s blistering, all-offense Punk’n'Grunge proudly pushes Metz’s noise crusade forward. Opening with a series of carefully timed guitar shrieks – like a call to the ramparts of the pre-medieval French city with which they share their name – and continuing with relentless drumming, six-stringed wizardry, Constantinian vocals, and what might be the auditory equivalent of burning oil, the cuts on this gorgeously coloured vinyl are taking no names as they storm your aural countryside. This is the last of their three 7″ opening salvo, get in on the ground floor.

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Metz – Automat

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Metz – Negative Space

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December 28th, 2010

Departures :: Christmas – Heritage

Christmas
Heritage
(Daffodil)
Oshawa, ON
Originally Released: 1970


From the spirited christmas of Aaron Levin:
Bob Bryden‘s recorded legacy is a humbling testament to the zenith of teenage creative potential. At the age of eighteen, Bob walked into a studio to record his fourth LP, the second under the banner of his hand-picked band Christmas (having already recorded two LPs as a leading member of Reign Ghost). Heritage remains a brilliant synthesis of lysergic hard-rock and the emerging streams of progressive shreddery. Crisp, punchy drums burst through the continuous leads, crunchy guitar, and trademark machine-gun bass lines to reveal an imaginative, surprising, and radiant vision of pop musics’ future. One of the best and most creative records released in Canada and a great way to start adventuring within Byrden’s amazing career.

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Christmas – April Mountain

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Christmas – Heritage

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December 27th, 2010

Ex Libris :: How to Book a Maybe Successful Tour for a Band That Hasn’t Received Hype on Pitchfork, etc.

How to Book a Maybe Successful Tour for a Band That Hasn’t Received Hype on Pitchfork, etc.
Written and Designed by: FAMINES
(Self Published)
[3-Fold, Xerox]
Edmonton, AB // Montreal, QC
Published: 2010


From less-business savvy mind of Aaron Levin:
With four national tours (and countless regional), and minds capable of organizing vast piles of minutiae, there is no band more fit to compile such a treatise on the topic of harsh Canadian touring than FAMINES. They’ve made every mistake and achieved every success; packed basements and pseudo-stadium seating alongside the desolation of playing to the opening band. All the while seeking input from every band, venue, promoter, and person at every level. And they’ve compiled all of this information in a handy pamphlet of strange proportions. Topics covered include: The First Things, Planning a Soft Route, A Note on Pay What You Can, Who to Send, How Many to Send, When, A Short Economics Lesson on Being a Touring Band, and others. Purchase: here. Seriously essential stuff.

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December 27th, 2010

New Canadiana :: CFCF – c28

CFCF
c28
(They Live We Sleep)
Montreal, QC
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From the popul magic of Jesse Locke:
Bobbing down chopped ‘n’ screwed rapids like a nightbus driver swilling drank, Montreal’s Mike Silver (a.k.a. CFCF) floods ear canals with this limited edition tape dub of The River EP. Tapping into the tropical zones of Popul Vuh’s Fitzcarraldo soundtrack, the scene is set with gleaming pools of synth before drifting into jungle (not Junglist) beats, haunted mansion pianos and hair-curling steam blasts. They Live We Sleep founder Rob Feulner (a.k.a. Video Nasties) also graced the EP standout with a hypnolasagnic clip melding memories from Garfield and Friends™. The burden of dreaminess rests on all involved.

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CFCF – It Was Never Meant To Be This Way

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CFCF -The River

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December 23rd, 2010

Boxing Day Blowout

Hey Everyone,

My apologies for the lack of content. What turned into a short two-day break quickly became my two-week vacation. I promise to return on Monday with a boxing-day blowout.

Hearts,

Aaron Levin
Weird Canada / Cantor Records
www.weirdcanada.com / www.cantorrecords.com

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December 10th, 2010

New Canadiana :: James Leroy – Distinction

James Leroy
Distinction
(Scotch Tapes)
Lethbridge, AB
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From the power pop distinction of Jesse Locke:
Since the dawn of the aughts, Lethbridge music mainstay Paul Lawton and songwriting partner JL Hankey have been cranking out infectious little pop tunes under a variety of aliases (James and The Giant, Coruscant, Light Years and James Leroy). The pitch-shifted vox will turn heads first, yet the duo’s tweaked backdrops include everything from slacker jangle to AM radio breeze, canned crowd sounds to Rapture-ous debauchery (when’s the last time you heard that comparison?). Distinction collects the cream of the crop before the pair’s latest project The Ketamines drops its debut LP on Dead Beat Records, plus 7-inches on HoZac, Southpaw and Odd Box.

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James Leroy – Wasting Our Time

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James Leroy – Celebration

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James Leroy – Nervous

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December 9th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Myelin Sheaths – Get On Your Nerves

Myelin Sheaths
Get On Your Nerves
(Southpaw Records)
Lethbridge, AB
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From the nervous sheets of Aaron Levin:
The most realized piece of psy-fi punk shreddery from the camp that put Alberta on the map for fringe aficionados. Burning beyond saturated garage riffery, Get On Your Nerves cauterizes all hemorrhaging power-chord burnitude, thrusting a strychnine hybrid of freejacked harmonies and maximum guitar overdrive straight to the dome. Bask in the crushed pop panoramas bursting through membranes of a nihilist future. Glorious 12″ vinyl LP with a limited clear version. Pass the grippy on the left hand side.

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Myelin Sheaths – Half-Wit

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Myelin Sheaths – Chemistry Lessons

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December 8th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Catbag – Creamweaving

Catbag
Creamweaving
(Claire Dragon Records)
Halifax, NS
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From the cream weaver of Aaron Levin:
Apocalyptica within Halifax’s midnight Tiki bar. Your math professor is wailing on a saxophone while the pulsing flares of cosmic debris pierce the midnight sky. Sweaty palms grip the last vestige of a shattered harbour. Shells. You sip fruit loops from a half-back crab bowl; sour flashes of crustaceous laced sugar cubes course through your glands, sifting through your intestine. The droning, violent saxophone and battered drums usher the completion of digestion; unwilling to push forward within the rolling, thunderous bass. Languish. Until the waves of post-millennia nu-lounge tether you to oblivion. OBEY.

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Catbag – SOLARTRASH

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Catbag – JESUS GOD, A FATLIP

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