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June 28th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Fletcher Pratt – Dub Sessions Vol. 1

From the haunted thickets of Taylor Burgess:
If I dared leave this cassette playing while I stepped off my porch and these ominous drawls trailed me down the street, I’d be scared to see the haunted thickets they would conjure. The first second of opener “Weird Dub” lets you know what this isn’t: Your hazed-out guitar coasting in on the Black Ark. Instead, Pratt slows everything the fuck down, throwing trademark delay over drums and otherworldly sax. “Sherwood Dub” has a cranked-down sample of “Eastside, Westside” mixed with his own percussion and plays more like a Midwestern spirit returning from the Middle East. The second side? Hell, don’t even…

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Fletcher Pratt – Weird Dub

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Fletcher Pratt – Sherwood Dub

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June 13th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Microdot – Lamps Not Amps

From the lamptitude of Taylor Burgess:
If I’m on a Hüsker Dü kick, is it proper to compare these two guys and lady to them? Here’s the low-down: they’re made up of two members of the Transistor 66 family and one music journalist. The trio rides a balance between fuzz and atmosphere, though they don’t go so far as to dive into any crazy tape loop shit. These are all straight-ahead punk numbers. The vox-in-the-red hit hard when the lyrics connect, and when they don’t, Bill Northcott’s screechy guitar and throaty delivery will still make you go ballistic.

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Microdot – You Think I’m A Liar

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Microdot – Teepee in the Forest

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April 28th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Alpha Couple – STALINGRAD

From the Pink Moon disintegration of Taylor Burgess:
Alpha Couple carry themselves like blossoming aristocrats until they have crying breakdowns as pauper existentialists — at which point they whip out the digital SLR and take pictures. Maybe cuz of this heightened self-consciousness, their realm of music is informed and effective: arty/singer-songwriters that wail on about their innermost feelings of insecurities and infidelity; or an allegorical pop song about miscommunication; or something like a Pink Moon instrumental disintegrating into a sound collage; or whimsical despondency over “the scene.” With a thick gauze of reverb, Kristel Jax and Mark Wohlgemuth sing obscurely because they have so much to hide — but they irresistibly hate to admit it to you, the prying listener, at the same time.

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Alpha Couple – Four Eyed Monster

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Alpha Couple – Jasper Johns

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April 5th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Fletcher Pratt – Deathdubs

From the horrific road trippage of Taylor Burgess:
Fletcher Pratt used to make sound collages in his early teens using nothing more than a ghettoblaster and its buttons, but years later, armed with a sequencer and electrical engineering expertise, his music is a beast much more sinister. Deathdubs doesn’t flinch. Deathdubs doesn’t even seem human. Throughout five monolithic tracks, three backed by beats too cerebral to be witch house or hip-hop, Pratt casts the shadow-selves of those genres. Resonance sliders, reverb, and digital delay aggressively take the front seat on this horrific road trip, while melodies and song structure are drugged out in the back.

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Fletcher Pratt – Driving Off a Cliff

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Fletcher Pratt – Midocean Orbit

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July 20th, 2010

Music :: White Dog – White Dog

White Dog
White Dog
(Prairie Fire Tapes)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the dogless white of Jesse Locke:
Barking at the moon from the heart of middle Canada, White Dog’s Chris Jacques doubles as the co-founder of Prairie Fire Tapes and its off branch Dub Ditch Picnic. This four-song c30 is the latest ear-clot from his ambient/drone project, and finds Jacques in a meditative mood while maintaining trademark murk. Following three storm and stress instrumental creepers, the clear culmination is closer “A Forest”. Here, haunted vocal samples sink into plaintive acoustic plucks, mystical wind chimes and ominous horror movie hums for a spirit animal ceremony that’s both mesmerizing and mysterious.

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White Dog – A Forest [excerpt]

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White Dog – The Return of Light [excerpt]

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January 22nd, 2010

Review :: Various Artists – The Compilation of Hope!!

Various Artists
The Compilation of Hope!!
(Bart Records)
Asterisk, Canada
::web/sounds::


From the compiled danglings of Jesse Locke:
The Comp of Hope starts off with a serious wallop: the 1-2-3 whirligig of Vancouver’s Damages, Nova Scotia’s Minivan Halen (snagging the prize for Best New Band Name) and Toronto’s Place Hands, three groups with distinct yet equally imposing approaches to the post- / proto- / avant- / eff-it-let’s-just-get-rowdy hardcore continuum. Bart Records founder Kevin Stebner seems to favour the tuff gnarl stuff, with seven of the comp’s 10 acts setting their phasers to beatdown. From the spazzy attack of Abbotsford’s GSTS! to the rastafried “turbo jamz” of Edmonton’s Slates, Missisauga’s Whiskey Priest and unfuckwithable label faves Gift Eaters closing it off, this cassette could provide the perfect aggro soundtrack for any hesher’s backyard mini-ramp sesh. The softer side of weird Canadiana is also represented with the Strokes-meet-a-blown-out-Casio addictiveness of Swwords (the former project of this very site’s founder), Montreal’s math-pop dangereux duo Special Noise and a live jam from the inimitable dd/mm/yyyy. Another top-notch tape release from Bart, with awesome foldout liner art (front & back) from Calgary’s Heather Kai Smith.
[Levin's Note: This has the most links of any review on Weird Canada. Which means you get to virtually travel across Canada, all thanks to Bart Records. Benjoy!]

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Special Noise – Fitness

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Minivan Halen – Epic

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SLATES – blooloend

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swwords – The Hit

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