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December 23rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Dan Foley – Fredonne Noël

Après trop de semaines de jingles des fêtes sans arrêt, Dan Foley perd la boule et régurgite son mal de cœur de son ton le plus morose. Un late night à fredonner tête à tête avec GarageBand, un malaise monotone qui fait frémir, tout comme les conversations ennuyantes avec grande-tante au cours des jours à venir. Joyeuses fêtes, les weirdos!

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Dan Foley – Promenade en Traineau

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Dan Foley – Noel Blanc

December 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: The Brabazons – Cling On b/w Ma Babby

Montreal’s storied scriptures of garage rock sass find its latest disciples with this smirking fuzz-punk trio. “Cling On” lurches to a start amidst raspberry blasts of guitar, Manzarek organ and lock-step drums before settling into the brand of smashed groove you’d hear pumping from the DJ booth at L’esco. “Ma Babby” ups the hook ‘n’ tackle factor even further with a deluge of pedal effects, tempo shifts and howling monkey vox. Stuff this in your stocking and smoke it.

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The Brabazons – Cling On

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The Brabazons – Ma Babby

December 21st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Dirty Beaches // Ela Orleans – Double Feature

Canada’s prime officer of cool meets England’s queen (of baroque pop), sibling solo sculptors of static foggy goodness. Dirty Beaches’ Badlands b-sides find a home here, living through Super 8 memories and dissolving time into slow swaying cigarette smoke. A strung out cinematic soundtrack for a long overnight train ride.

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Dirty Beaches – Crosses

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Ela Orleans – Neverend

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Dirty Beaches – Death Valley

December 16th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Slim Twig – There’s a Secret To Your Pleasure b/w Pastiche

Slim Twig - There's A Secret To Your Pleasure b/w Pastiche
Ditching the saddleback for a deep-dive into sun-soaked desert jammery, Slim’s wasted wycked warble embodies a new, singular harmony. He’s been re-envisioned within a blizzard of smoked-out synthetics and organ-swung arpeggio; a centrifuge of lysergic balladry and kinetic insanity. Timeless burners for the possessed mind. Conjured via Calico Corp., Slim’s exotic new imprint of “unique articles, starkly designed.”

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Slim Twig – There’s a Secret To Your Pleasure

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Slim Twig – Pastiche

December 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Prime Cuts – Prime Cuts Hammond Ri

Hammond Ri - Prime Cuts
The simplest sandwich can be a delicacy in the right hands. So it is with Prime Cuts. Synthesist Nick’s aqueous tones conjure up Mile End Machu Picchus while drummer Riley masters the art of percussion-as-hook, stretching across the sky with single bars of rhythm from your favorite Sub-Saharan freedom fighter cassette. But what really grabs the heart are the chanted Zen laments for undergrad living: “Nothing is working/I wish I were surfing/Lonely in college.”

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Prime Cuts – Lonely in College

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Prime Cuts – ’93 Grand Caravan

December 14th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Nick Storring – Rife

As a compilation of Storring’s electroacoustic variété, Rife hints at the hidden majesty lurking within his many mental membranes. The searing vision lies between the strung wisdom of his violin and the electroacoustic prowess harnessed by modern digitalia; dense ethnographic footprints imprinted within our curious minds. The heavy THX moves coalesce within beds of a private world processed for our unguided meditation. A valiant expression of creative experimentalism worth all the honours stowed upon him. Freeze-dried for a gripper’s safe keeping.

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Nick Storring – artifact 2

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Nick Storring – artifact 3

December 13th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Shaker Hymns – Dub Sawyer EP

Shaker Hymns - Dub Sawyer EP
Imagine following that silly rabbit down a hole and never finding the bottom. A soundtrack to your descent may sound frightening but in fact, after about two minutes of free falling, a sense of peace licks your brain and you forget what it feels like to keep two feet on the ground. Shaker Hymns whoop and flip chords to penetrate typical guitar riffs for the ultimate in desert spy movie darkness. A voice squelches from behind a dune but the bass ‘n’ drums are your canteen of agua. Lifesavers in a strange place that leave you afraid but intrigued. A plane in the sky writes a message that reads: “keep going”.

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Shaker Hymns – Juanita

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Shaker Hymns – Dub Sawyer

December 12th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Jef Barbara – Contamination

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Huge late-pass on this monster groove. Between the subtle hushes of “cocaine love” and damaged guitar slank of “Larmes de crocodile” resides the sequenced genius of Jef Barbara. The subtle streams of pop consciousness run rampant in Barbara’s work; somehow existing in a nether-genre equally perplexing as inastiable. Contamination‘s surreal jaunt through NRG minimalism will wreck the havoc of permanence as you clamour for softer heights amongst Montreal’s erotic synth explosion (complete with cameos from Femminielli and JLK).

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Jef Barbara – Larmes de Crocodile

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Jef Barbara – Wild Boys

December 9th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Taiwan – Belladonna

File Under: Angelo Badalamelty. Stealthily trailing his previous tone-float into the celestial spring, Phil Dickau reemerges with the ill-omened warble jams of Taiwan. Hidden deep in the mustiest corners of the Black Lodge, he re-imagines Twin Peaks’ timeless soundworld as a nightmaric smooth jazz Buddha Box. Groove to the sound of your mind liquefied.

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Taiwan – B04

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Taiwan – A02

December 8th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Each Other – Taking Trips

This one’s a total “no duh.” The latest subsidiary of the Long, Long, Long hit factory sheds a few layers of skronk while firing jangular hooks down the assembly line. Space echoes shimmer in an ocean of detached emotion while the tag-team harmonies sound positively fab. Drifting from the Maritimes to Montreal, our heroes have picked up a ringer to man the traps and cast this brilliant kahuna into the wild. A+++.

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Each Other – Looking Lapsed

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Each Other – Odd Body of Water

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