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August 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Quivers – <o>

Giving Stalwart Sons a run for their CanRock dollars, Halifax’s Quivers streamline the lobster-fisting, Hali-riffery of our magnificent eastern bloc into prodigious narratives of distortion-laced heroism. Their lead shreddery tears down every wall, channeling riff-ladened vibrations through our undulating bodies. All praise the heralded second-coming of anthemic rockery. File under: arena grip.

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Quivers – Instant Life

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Quivers – Sou’Wester

August 16th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Rebecca’s Room – The Burned CD II

With wild strokes of coloured psychedelia, Rebecca’s Room return with another lazer-graphed tome brimming with pop-lysergia. Languishing within their popular bedlam, the bedroom-laced mono-pop sizzles with uncanny waves of Eastern abandon; Dylonian moves displaced by a wicked array of tabla pounding beneath the devil’s anvil. A ridiculously curious leap forward for the New Waterford native. Deft grippage, please.

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Rebecca’s Room – Happiness Rings

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Rebecca’s Room – Song Bird

July 13th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Cousins – Secret Weapon b/w Speech

Hopping in a tour van to resume his customary position on the drum throne, Hali-pop hero Aaron Mangle has been spreading the gospel across this great nation and beyond. Armed with swinging stick skills and a heart-melting honey pot croon, he’s casually penned a songbook of soon-to-be classics, two of which are collected on this crucial single from Noyes. Fleshing out the arrangements with piano and assorted percussion while slowing the tempos to summer heat pace, the results are a honky tonkin’ porch sittin’ stomp-a-long. 100 coloured, 200 black. G.R.I.P. before it’s G.O.N.E.

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Cousins – Speech

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Cousins – Secret Weapon

June 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Dog Day – The Scratches EP

The title track from Dog Day’s latest release as a two-piece steps between the swirls of dreams and the maddening grip of stupid insomnia. The spiraling keyboards from the band’s previous incarnation are no longer present, and in their stead we have Seth’s guitars and Nancy’s drums beating out a crunchy refrain while their pure wondering kid-voices bemoan all the thoughts of money and friends and old lovers circling around and around, wearing grooves in the brain along with the ticking of the hours. “Belle” is a wilder, more anxious jam that chugs forward and whispers a story of psychedelic, beautifully skittish bird-love. In the last song, “Give Me the Light,” Nancy’s tiny voice hums while the guitars groove roughly and Seth sighs and grumbles a little until the chorus tears a little crack open and a slip of daytime appears. Oh Dog Day. These three perfect songs stay heavy while easing the weight and softening the furrows of the heart.

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Dog Day – Scratches

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Dog Day – Belle

June 8th, 2011

Video :: Transfixed – Physical Demands [Dir. Heather Rappard]

When the last vestiges of PiG transpired within the historic vortex of creative matter, Transfixed launched straight into the digital ether with a triumvirate of Kraftwerkian oblation. Paired with Meat Curtains’ Heather Rappard, “Physical Demands” emerges a linear behemoth, orthogonal to the layered VHS cut-ups marking its birth into the visual realm. Both audio and visual straddle the delicate lace wrapping the hypersurface of the present, grafting the temporally-obscured tension onto our misaligned anti-conscious. An inspiring correlation for the visually adventurous.

June 7th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Lantern – Stranger I Come. Stranger I Leave.

With this newest offering, Lantern have fully harvested their Hasil Adkins hee-haw while continuing to bury themselves alive in a blizzard of Bo’s beats. What am I talking about? A refreshing bad-breath, proto-punk, Rat Fink mud bath in which you can finally erase your pockmarked Chevy Chase face. You the listener are transported via the filth to the absolute crispiest and most burnt ends of the fuzz n’ buzz spectrum. There are too many notes in the solos to say they sound like The Cramps, but you get the idea. The opening title track steers the clearest, with an instrumental dub-stomp my co-workers agree is trippy. Lantern is the best band in North America.

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Lantern – Stranger I Come. Stranger I Leave.

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Lantern – I Don’t Know

May 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: The Ether – Dead Scene Politics b/w 96 Tears

With infinite drones of granular noise, The Ether dismantle ? and the Mysterians “96 Tears” into blissful nihilism. It’s the perfect trajectory for the moodier garage-punk of the 21st century: manic threads of derisive tone, painful hollaramas, and the burnt guitar leads of a desolate future. The Ether remain a vision into an apocalyptic groove transcending metaphysical mediums in sinusoidal abandon. Get sicc with it.

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The Ether – 96 Tears

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The Ether – Dead Scene Politics

May 9th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Long, Long, Long – Who The Fuck Said Family Ain’t Family No More

Scrambling assembly line hooks with élan, Halifax’s self-dubbed ‘Factory-Pop’ superstars deliver the goods yet again on this tour cassette. The opening two-song salvo might be the band’s gentlest passage to date, while their trademark three-part vocals sound downright angelic. Yet Long, Long, Long’s complex choreography still spirals, squeals and corkscrews with unpredictable guitarmonies, and by the time eight-minute monolith “You’ll Not Guess Who I Met In Minnesota” hits its apex, we’re in ear bleeding country. Add a sidelong backward-swooping soundscape on the flip, and you’ve got essential listening.

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Long, Long, Long – There Are Tape Machines Down There

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Long, Long, Long – You’ll Not Guess Who I Met in Minnesota

April 27th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Mess Folk // Fuck Montreal – Split

Mess Folk: C’est l’été, il fait chaud pis t’es quand même dans ce bar-là, celui qui va faire mal le lendemain et qui se cure avec une plottée de bines pis les fonds de la veille. Du rock garage boueux qui sonne comme si tu te faisais verser de la bière dans les trous d’oreille. Tu te réveilles hungover, tu cales ton Gatorade trop vite pis tu vires la cassette de bord. Fuck Montreal sonne le glas et te paraphrase un mal de tête dans lequel se confondent des chants tribaux pis des comptines patibulaires sur un fond de grunge hanté. Fuck Montreal essaie peut-être de te faire peur, mais t’es là pour leur montrer que t’es pas pire tuff pis que tu combats le feu par le feu – pis que plus que ça fait mal, moins ça fait mal.

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Mess Folk – No Jobs

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Fuck Montreal – Bucket of Blood

April 6th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Meat Curtains – Eden Disorder

Meat Curtains exist in a Northern Atlantic alternate dimension, one where Kathleen Hanna kicked the shit out of Courtney Love in ’95 (both in the alley and for popular music supremacy). All piss ‘n’ piss stains, the hilariously titled Eden Disorder is un-fucking-flappable. No-fi teenage glue-huffing (“Flipper Mom”) collides with carnival cacophony (“Boys Are My Flowers”), while dumpster-diving guitars skid beneath stream-of-consciousness, all-in schizo rants (“Syphilis is the New Clear Pepsi”), leaving a trail of primordial ooze in its wake. By the time singer Molly Meatloaf snarls “I’m in heat!” — part declaration, part challenge — it’s time to change your pants. Welcome to the new face of riot grross.

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Meat Curtains – Flipper Mom

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Meat Curtains – I Hate Rock N Roll

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