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February 1st, 2012

New Canadiana :: Rhythm of Cruelty – Demo

Rhythm of Cruelty - Demo
Skulking through distilled collages of glassy dreams are two lovers basking in high/low downstroke flanges and the beguiling hypnoses of analog motorik. Re-envisioning the heavier aural tropes of past projects, they tear down an oft-aped distinction to construct unencumbered bricks-and-mortar post-punk. Rhythm of Cruelty is a beautiful trashy-dash of battleship grey upon a black and white world.

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Rhythm of Cruelty – The Past

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Rhythm of Cruelty – Hollow Eyes

January 26th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Sean Nicholas Savage – Flamingo

Sean Nicholas Savage - Flamingo
If small town fairs were hip to the culture of cheap thrills and cheese appeal that speaks to my inner child, I’d hear Flamingo on the tinny speakers beside my head while I wait in line for elephant ears and ride vouchers. Sean Savage is calmer and quieter here than I’ve known him to be. These are vaguely erotic hand-holding and ferris-wheel-secret-telling songs. I want to win the big bear prize for my gal and make promises to her while the sun sets. Lovely meets funny as Sean trills, woos and oohs you.

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Sean Nicholas Savage – She Was The One

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Sean Nicholas Savage – Chin Chin

January 25th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Au Vol – Apothecary

Au Vol - Apothecary
Canada’s cantankerous centrifuge (read: Thunder Bay) births another industrial mammoth. Rolling in throws of topological warble and droning magnificence, Au Vol soaks the diligent mind in patterns of pseudorandom bliss. Apothecary is not without its minimal ambience, bringing a truer vision into the audio dialog coursing through the Canadian Shield.

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Au Vol – Don’t Phone Home

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Au Vol – Warm Bath, Gaudy as Poppies (For Sylvia)

January 23rd, 2012

New Canadiana :: Denim Reptile – Custody

From the manufactured landscape of Southern Ontario a new hybrid emerges. The Denim Reptile moves nimbly on warbling electronic feet across man made hills, but its tough exterior is defined by unabashed parking lot guitar solos. Donning an Iron Maiden T-shirt, the lizard king compresses roadhouse blues through a Windows 95 soundcard. A much needed flashback to basements of the early digital era.

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Denim Reptile – Smokin’ Broken Glass

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Denim Reptile – Heavy Duty Mama

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Denim Reptile – Bodice Ripper

January 17th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Lantern // The Ether – Lantern // The Ether

Lantern and The Ether Split Cassette Cover
Lantern’s burning proto-punk and wah-wah workouts provide a much needed headbang session to strengthen those aging neck tendons. Their cover of this trashcan anthem further proves the cutting-edge theory that silverface fuzz blows away synth-banjo, any day. Meanwhile, The Ether’s destructo-wave ripples into black holes, a dense mass constantly on the verge of implosion. Here and there, a sparse guitar lead escapes the confines, a split-second before the void pulls you back head first into its crushing fury. Must grip!

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The Ether – Permanent State of Grace

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Lantern – America is my Zoo

January 11th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Tenderness – The Axe Is Ready At The Tree

Tenderness - The Axe Is Ready At The Tree
Free-floating memories of Sunday morning devotionals merge with the holy ghost of Ann Peebles on this earth-rattling rave-up in the name of. Fresh to def with instantaneous heft and a front-to-back set of unshakeable tunes, Chrissy Reichert’s pitch (and paradigm) shifted bangers twist up Tranzac avant-squawk with dusted brother ‘No C’ Zukerman, including feline sound effects guaranteed to freak out your cats. Tenderness could be 2012’s sonic salvation. Get ur grip on.

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Tenderness – We Lay Our Broken World In Sorrow At Your Feet

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Tenderness – The Axe Is Ready At The Tree

January 10th, 2012

New Canadiana :: The Transcendental Rodeo – The Magic Garden / Le Jardin Magique

[J-Card Scan] :: The Transcendental Rodeo - Plays and Sings The Magic Garden / Le Jardin Magique
Sounds of chimes, gongs, angelic voices male and female. An unseen hand pulls back a curtain, exposing a room filled with beaded sights and melting lights, incense stenches and the smells of foods fit for gods. The sound’s engaging the movement of all in attendance, who are involved in the humanitarian orchestra of peaceful sound happening right now, for the sacrifice of the burdens put on us. Heightened by the senses, organized folk freedom makes you feel aware of emotions you seemed to have forgotten. Someone hands you some reefer, another points out an acoustic guitar sitting alone with no one to strum it, and before you know it you’re part of a living landscape of tantric Babylonian psychedelic meditation. A warm beating heart of an ensemble led by the skilled Doc Dunn in a cold cage of a city. Feel these babies breathe, Side A from a living room, Side B including an audience. Put down that plastic fork you’re holding, its comfort food will never satisfy you again. Come heal your soul in these pure vibrations.

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The Transcendental Rodeo – Magic (excerpt 01)

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The Transcendental Rodeo – Magic (excerpt 02)

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 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

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