August 30th, 2010
From the eternal folly of Aaron Levin:
These lo-bit atonal HFX-heavyweights return with another chaotic excursion into audactic nullity. Wailing saxophones pierce through the murky guitar shredding as gravitrons of distortion warp every sinusoidal tendency; it’s an ear-biting display of The Ether’s magnetic live show, no simple feat for a five piece using every noise-making machine known to humankind. Their deconstructed blues number (“I Need You”) is unsane. Another superb die-cut from the folks at Patente. MUSTGRIP.
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The Ether – I Need You
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The Ether – Hustling Myself
File under: aaron levin // free // halifax // lo-fi // patente // punk // weird punk
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August 20th, 2010
From the cosmic slop of Aaron Levin:
If Grimes’ tour CDR (to be officially released via Arbutus on September 30th at Pop Montreal) is any indication, the cosmic-pop deity is transcending into a vocal-cruising eidolon of celestial proportions. Layers of wyspy vocals form the cooling galaxies of Halfaxa while her minimal drums synthesize Enja‘s lingering espers into a club anthem fit for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Or the Mos Eisley Cantina. Either way, Grimes’ future-stream sinusoids are peeling wigs.
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Grimes – devon
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Grimes – wereglid
File under: aaron levin // cosmic // electro // electronic // pop // psych // psychedelic // vocal-pop // weird
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August 17th, 2010
From the comyn-spiced balconies of James Goddard:
This EP from Edmonton’s Jom Comyn (sometimes Jim Cumming) speaks to the concerns of young adults in the 21st Century – I mean actual young adults, not the browsers of Gordon Korman – unemployment, cigarettes, sloppy romances, late-nights, and (of course) almost condemned balconies. The guitars carry the tunes lethargically; apathetic tones, sketchy feedback, and non-committal fuzz over dusty, stilted drumming. Jom’s vocals shine through the nest like a retired lounge singer; an odd, weathered voice spouting the words of a quarter-life savant. “You don’t know what you are doing until years after it’s through.” On Sunday morning, in a hungover haze, it all sounds like it might be the truth.
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Jom Comyn – New Raincoat
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Jom Comyn – Roomie
File under: champion city records // folk // indie // james goddard // mellow // pop // rock // ssw
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July 30th, 2010
From the hidden rhombi of Aaron Levin:
Minimalist journeys through static debris and processed guitar form the blueprint to this Solars side project hailing from Vancouver. The dense new age grooves on Ghosts are a fitting sonar trigger to your mental mars vacation; calming reverberations through cosmic fog, dripping vocals and mystic drones. Listen with three ears… or three hands.
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Secret Pyramid – Permanence
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Secret Pyramid – Ghosts of the Sun / Oceans
File under: aaron levin // ambient // experimental // new age // solars // total recall
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July 21st, 2010
From the genital fusion of Aaron Levin:
Kamira sees Mongst traversing the dualic streams of Glassian multi-part ambience and melanic guitar exertion; both avenues percolating his soundscape with dialectical conviction. Let the hypnotic minimalia of “Or Does It Explode” take your mind through a 12 minute trip into ancient ambient pastures, climaxing with a heavy dose of tranquil string dronage. The whole passage seems serene when compared to “The Riverboard Caroline”‘s avant-occult shreddery, and thankfully the contradictions don’t stop there. A brilliant strip of experimentalia from one of Vancouver’s finest.
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Mongst – Or Does It Explode
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Mongst – The Riverboat Caroline
File under: aaron levin // ambient // doom // drone // experimental // isolated now waves // noise // philip glass
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June 30th, 2010
From the teen steamings of Jesse Locke:
Inside its shiny wrapping paper and tiny Ziploc bag, this split cassette from two of Toronto’s weirdest offers a veritable smorgasbord of smeared sonic exploration. Side A finds Doom Tickler phreeking the beat with goosepimply processed vocals pitched somewhere between Black Dice, black metal and Sméagol. Of their four songs, “School Jungle Mud Pool” is the standout, with its demon-possessed singsong melody, squelching synths and jackhammer rhythms resulting in the most hellish Acid House since Love’s Secret Domain. Spectral Forum, meanwhile, jam-pack the flip with 10 wildly varying selections. From the watery miasma of “Mystic Pointe Mississauga” to the spacey grooves of “Corpse Made of Lint”, dubby ice- cream truck ditty “Heavy Metal Homeroom” and upbeat Moroder-nodding finale “Here 2 Eternity,” it’s all too easy to get lost in the steam.
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Spectral Forum – Here 2 Eternity
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Doom Tickler – School Jungle Mud Pool
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Spectral Forum – Mystic Pointe Mississauga
File under: dance // electronic // experimental // jesse locke // leslie predy // loop // moroder // weird
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June 25th, 2010
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Parallel Pyres
Parallel Pyres
(Self Released)
Montreal, QC
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From the fast-build of Aaron Levin:
Another Montreal-Beijing connection reigns supreme here at Weird Canada HQ. Parallel Pyres’ self-titled debut is a looping pop fantasy of eccentric panoramas. Busted Casio drums slowly build into a brilliant hooked-filled chaos of repetition that shines through the churning fidelity. The wide palette of pop simplicity will grant heavy doses of play in both sweat dripping basements and Casino lobbies. There is a Hobo Cult connection and it makes a lot of sense.
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Parallel Pyres – Homebodies
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Parallel Pyres – Swimming
File under: aaron levin // beijing // electronic // hobo cult records // looping // sampling
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June 4th, 2010
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
File under: aaron levin // exotica // experimental // jungle // noise // patente // psych // synth
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May 20th, 2010
From the phantastic visions of Aaron Levin:
Phantasy Visions commandeers the disturbed ritual-waves emanating from the depths of a cosmic jungle-vortex. Busted drums churn through a minor-key cult-fest that rivals The Pink Noise for its basement-macabre. PRADADA wins by reaching new levels of phantasmic antipathy within the layers of echo and destruction. A disturbing record not for the light of spirit and a certified contender for strangest album of the year. Forward all psychological damage claims to Hobo Cult mainstay Francesco de Gallo.
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PRADADA – Lay Down Your Heads
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PRADADA – Drunk Ship
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PRADADA – Wasted Indians
File under: aaron levin // drum machine // hobo cult records // lo-fi // psych // ritual // weird
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April 27th, 2010
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The Peelies
Together Forever
(Lava Dance Records)
Montreal, QC
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From the jingle-jango of Aaron Levin:
Post-Yé-yé garage jangle is rarely exported outside of Quebec, an odd fact given the adorable narrative Bande à Part threw together on Montreal’s The Peelies. Their debut album, Together Forever, has a summery, dissonant clangor and (oddly) prairie chic perfect for drawing all over your bud’s face and lighting a car on fire. Together we’ll douce the flames with a squinted, morning warble; it’s an indian summer.
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The Peelies – Merde In French
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The Peelies – Snake on a Man
File under: aaron levin // femme // jangle // lava dance records // ye-ye
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