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May 17th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Weed – Gun Control

Weed - Gun Control
Ease back into 90s sluritude with Weed’s latest quad-platter offering of bummed-out grunge. The newly formed melancholy drips mighty rhythms into a painful chorus of subterranean solitude; the glimmering sun, locked into grooves laced with peaks and valleys, rarely yielding a morning dew more suffocating than the BOSS distortion warming each track on Gun Control. Minimal synth aficionados will be fooled by “Ben’s Tour”‘s opening riff, but the real heads will dive for the mail-order-only grippage. Vinyl is limited to 200 copies with a cassette-version offered via Green Burrito.

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Weed – Ben’s Tour

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Weed – Even Black

November 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Silver Dapple – English Girlfriend

Caked from top to bottom in a thick simmer of fuzz, Silver Dapple choose to fight amplifier feedback with massive walls of unclean guitar overdrive. English Girlfriend’s honey dripping sounds echo back two decades at Black Tambourine’s feminine noise-pop, its finely wound songwriting tangible through humble hooks and fairly removed expressionism. À dévorer à pleines dents.

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Silver Dapple – Want To

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Silver Dapple – Song For The Boys

November 2nd, 2011

Video :: Silver Dapple – (Pauses) [Dir. Moduli TV]

Cut up collage comp vids of found footage and cable access standouts are good even when they’re done lazily, and they’re endlessly entertaining when someone puts in the effort. Moduli TV has done it well for Silver Dapple, infusing random clips with a thematic narrative. There’s purpose and flow in the shaking, distorted images, and it’s matched by fuzzed-out shoegazing guitars plus stomping and running drums. With strange breaks, disconcerting dance and exercise videos and quick excerpts of VHS garbage, the video is a stand-out on its own; it changes enough to keep you guessing, and every frame seems picked for intrigue and discomfort. The song itself is a mild drug that slowly builds dependence. Female vox soar over thick guitars and bass and the punctuating drums make you pay attention. Altered collage rock done right, and a full-length coming out soon. Get ready to grip, or grip now in advance.

August 24th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Weed – With Drug b/w Eighty

Weed’s follow-up to the fuzzencholy-laced summer-bummer vibes of Down in the Valley is a remarkably sunnier turn-of-phrase on the granular 90s pop nomenclature. The wonderfully self-conflicted sinusoid-spectacular bursts with vocal hooks, tossing easy-bait through a gauntlet of crunchy guitars and Haligonian angularity. A fantastic voyage down the bizarro-universe of 200-press pop genius. GRIP.

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Weed – With Drug

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Weed – Eighty

May 2nd, 2011

Video :: Jesuslesfilles // The Peelies – Á demain // Medication

Jesuslesfilles // The Peelies
Á demain // Medication
[Directed By: Phil Console]
Montreal, QC
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From the intellipop of: Michael Deane:
Jesuslesfilles bring Metz to Montreal, infusing blown ’90s college-guitar-rock with sing-along thumping psych-pop-punk. Weirdly infecting vocals earworm their way into your being — popping, pulsing and breaking into off-kilter patterns of inspired intellipop vocals. The Peelies pick up on the softer side, mingling fuzzy guitars, warped riffs and pronounced, staccatotized vox; spitting sweetness on top of the scuzz. This tune brings Back To The Future-basics, introducing naïve pop to garage-punkitude and rock ‘n roll’s go-go-ing playfulness. These bands meet in the middle of excellence, matching each other’s influences and energy in a constructive complement. A seamless two-song teaser for the upcoming split from Planet of the Tapes.

March 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bad Vibrations // Bloodhouse – Bad Blood

D’un côté, Bad Vibrations délaisse quelque peu le power-pop-punk tordu qui caractérisait son premier maxi pour s’exposer la flanelle sur un sentier cagneux de fuzz mélancolique, de tambours itératifs et de voix éthérées et dit « allo » au grunge c88-90 d’un air à la fois triste et fâché, parce que le grunge c’est compliqué. De l’autre, Bloodhouse se magne le punk, amincit son mur du son pour laisser passer plus de fun dans son psych-garage et incite sérieusement au tapage de pied jusqu’à ce que ça saigne, entre un John Dwyer d’avant et un de maintenant. Halifax l’a, l’affaire.

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Bloodhouse – Endless Vacation

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Bad Vibrations – Waking Up

February 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Weed – Down In The Valley EP

Down in the Valley usurps your evening mellow, forcing it into a somber chamber of melancholic fuzz. Only Vancouver could produce such a soundscape at odds with itself; the summery, searing pop leads vying for your vertical while Weeds’ minor-key diorama drag you right back down. Every track is engulfed in their stilted mellow producing a level of drum-sampled pop brilliance rarely seized. This is the new wave of post-hippie Vancouver freaks. Grip their sinusoids while they still permeate.

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Weed – Release Party

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Weed – Songs For Girls

February 21st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Clinton Machine – Gettin’ Personial

Inexplicably gnarly wall-of-soundgarden fringe-freak explosion. Clinton Machine pushes you through a vortex of bludgeoned 90s metal-zone, burnt politics, and low-end attitude that will confound and bewilder, careening your understanding of the sanctity of modern living. Gettin’ Personial is the audible collection of bedroom nightmares conjured by distant uncles lurking in every basement apartment below you. Listen with caution. Beautifull tri-color silk-screen cover. GRIPPETH!

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Clinton Machine – Sun Dog

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Clinton Machine – Good News

January 31st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Auld Beak – 4 Songs

The genre forgery at Bart Records continues to astound. Gripping from the nest that birthed 90s radicalia, Saskatoon’s Auld Beak seamlessly blend their sinusoids into a hurly burly of 90s catch, screaming intimacy, and post-hardcore guitar wizardry. The result is bewildering and addictive, driving you to spend hours hopelessly picking apart their orthogonal streams. Definitely something brewing at Bart Records HQ (see Stalwart Sons). Strange currents indeed!

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Auld Beak – G.B.H.

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Auld Beak – Cat Song

January 28th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Shortpants Romance – Shotgun Divorce

On peut faire ben des choses avec le punk tout en gardant ça simple. Un power trio pas de basse. S’il y avait une chose telle que le post-grunge, qu’est-ce que tu ferais avec? Tu lui ferais mal pour le fun et après tu le regretterais d’un trait de mélancolie – entre la tendresse et la force, entre la romance et les fusils. Pour que ça fasse du bien. Les mots sont criés ou coulent comme un mantra susurré à ton oreille par un fantôme des 90s et les riffs, serrés ou lousses, transpirent le plaisir possible à travers l’angoisse. Bizarrement cathartique.

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Shortpants Romance – Low End

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Shortpants Romance – Les Chiméres

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