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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 24th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Boyhood – Boyhood EP

Boyhood - Boyhood EP
Layers of distorted flux from the nether-zone of Ottawa’s poly-pop underground ooze within Boyhood’s unassuming mellow burner. These direct-to-disc weirdos sleaze back into an alternate 90s wu-mansion brimming with teen age riots and sour times. Drizzle these noggin’ nodders over fists riffling for the grip.

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Boyhood – Where I’m Going

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Boyhood – Maintaining My Uncool

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Boyhood – Heat

January 16th, 2012

Featurette :: 2011 Wrap-Up

Since our great birthing in the spring of 2009, we have never bestowed upon the masses a curated year in review. We have our philosophical reasons (read: laziness), but 2011 was a special year and we’re hoping that 2012 will bring more change and triumph. In line with our continuous transfiguration, we would like to present a 2011 summary (of sorts). So, please, dig in. We hope you enjoy and can’t wait to share the mountains of boon scattered across our northernly paradise.

PS – Thanks to all our lovely writers for their hard work submitting all these beautiful trinkets of 2011′s glory. Additionally, my humble thanks to Jesse Locke for compiling everything and to Myke Atkinson for his layout advice.

Hearts,

Aaron Levin
Weird Canada
http://weirdcanada.com/

2011 Albums We Missed

More 2011 Albums We Missed:

Music From 2011 We Wished Was Released Physically

Other non-physical digitalia:

New Births Of 2011

Other newborns from the two-oh-one-one:

2011’s Most Memorable Album Cover

Other (hopefully not-so-garish) album covers:

2011’s Most Elaborate Packaging

More curiously packaged goodness:

2011’s Most Surprising Releases, Events And Ephemera

Other great minutiae of 2011:

2011 Release From The Most Obscure Location

  • Sutton, QC: Les Nitrates de Madame Mimieux – Rien n’est moins grave (Benoit Poirier)
  • Churchill, MB: A message from Taylor Burgess: “Hey, polar bear occultists from Churchill, get in touch with me already!” (Taylor Burgess)
  • Winnipeg, MB: Microdot – Lamps Not Amps (Paul Lawton)

    It used to be that Winnipeg was THE Canadian music scene, but it’s been pretty quiet over the last decade or so, and thus fairly obscure. Thankfully, The core group of musicians making up Microdot/Atomic Don and the Black Sunrise/Angry Dragons/This Hisses etc. will change that soon if releases like Lamps Not Amps have anything to say about it.

2011’s Favourite New Genre

2011’s Most Stoned Dudes

Other stoners of note:

2011’s Geographical Hotbed

Other geographs of note:

  • Lethbridge, AB (Mike Deane)

    Still!

  • Toronto, ON (Jesse Locke)

    Ha ha ha ha, no, seriously.

  • Saskatchewan (Taylor Burgess)
  • Halifax, NS (Benoit Poirier)
  • Halifax, NS / Truro, NS (Alison Lang)
  • London, ON (Pam Haasen)
  • The Internet (Gabriel Jasmin)

2011’s Most Face-Melting Video

  • Femminielli – “Atlantida” – (Simon Frank)
  • 2011’s Softest Bands Not Related To THOMAS

    Other softness:

    • Doc Dunn, Sundrips, and Bruce Cockburn’s first album. (Jesse Locke)
    • “The only soft I listened to is THOMAS. All others need not apply.” (Mike Deane)
    • Softcore, obvs. (Taylor Burgess)
    • Lab Coast (Jean Sebastien Audet)
    • “Gross.” (Paul Lawton)
    • Headaches (Pam Haasen)

      Well, I guess that’s arguable, but we like the softest moments of Land-o!

    • “All soft leads to THOMAS.” (Aaron Levin)
    • Jennifer Castle (Gabriel Jasmin)

    2011’s Youngest Bieber-Not-Bieber

    Other non-Biebs:

    January 12th, 2012

    Tournée Banale :: Tournée Banale Avant-Garde 7 & 8

    We’re blowing out the last two episodes of AIDS Wolf‘s venture in tour banality with a double-shotgun blast of inanity. Moskos explores European tour cuisine, a bouncy-castle paradise, and a new age toilet before plotting Drainolith‘s 700th tour. The inane vibes are summarized brilliantly by Episode 8′s exploration of an ant infestation within Chloe’s sugar. It’s a beautiful closure to the wolf’s Europen journey through documentary vérité. Perched high upon our digital chalice we implore those outside the 100-sided die to heed our message: bring us your banality and we shall broadcast it to the world.

    PS – This incredible feature would not have been possible without the hard work of Alex Moskos and AIDS Wolf. Thank you so much.

    December 16th, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Slim Twig – There’s a Secret To Your Pleasure b/w Pastiche

    Slim Twig - There's A Secret To Your Pleasure b/w Pastiche
    Ditching the saddleback for a deep-dive into sun-soaked desert jammery, Slim’s wasted wycked warble embodies a new, singular harmony. He’s been re-envisioned within a blizzard of smoked-out synthetics and organ-swung arpeggio; a centrifuge of lysergic balladry and kinetic insanity. Timeless burners for the possessed mind. Conjured via Calico Corp., Slim’s exotic new imprint of “unique articles, starkly designed.”

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    Slim Twig – There’s a Secret To Your Pleasure

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    Slim Twig – Pastiche

    December 14th, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Nick Storring – Rife

    As a compilation of Storring’s electroacoustic variété, Rife hints at the hidden majesty lurking within his many mental membranes. The searing vision lies between the strung wisdom of his violin and the electroacoustic prowess harnessed by modern digitalia; dense ethnographic footprints imprinted within our curious minds. The heavy THX moves coalesce within beds of a private world processed for our unguided meditation. A valiant expression of creative experimentalism worth all the honours stowed upon him. Freeze-dried for a gripper’s safe keeping.

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    Nick Storring – artifact 2

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    Nick Storring – artifact 3

    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

    December 7th, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Solange – The Sweet Fondling Of Darkness, Too Pretty To Breathe

    This time-warped transmission from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society drifts the listener deep into transoceanic distress. Sampledelic hydro vibes drenched in tape-warbled basement prog make for heavy loner moves in a cf. 2011 artifact of modern fringe. Solange’s radiophonic workshop spins skyward as a cast of disembodied voices spin the wheels of confusion. Grip?

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    Solange – murder nutured by the brittle, cold teat of death

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    Solange – let weeping corpses cry

    December 6th, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Jessica Jalbert – Brother Loyola


    Deep within Canada’s tundradic core lies a lush gully of acoustic majesty. As these warm vibrations pierce the embittered cold, their very migration needs a soundtrack; hymns to carry us while our ancient graves turn barren lives to eternal dust. While the sky turns Paris Green and our eyes drift softly into slumber, Jessica’s hymns persuade; Brother Loyola‘s warmth and gorgeous mellow shall swallow us in a liquid sun of minor-key mourning. The cover says it all: grip.

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    Jessica Jalbert – Paris Green

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    Jessica Jalbert – Necromancy

    December 2nd, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Drainolith – You Paid For It b/w Deepwater, PA

    Psychic Handshake digs deep within thee outernet to conjure this 7″ from AIDS Wolf git-hub Alex Moskos. Soaked in a bewildering avant-croonery, “You Paid For It” double-declutches into a ramshackle sinkhole of pinball shreddery, multi-throned oscillators and 8-bit digitalis. This transmigration through polyrhythmic hood jams continue as “Deepwater, PA” devolves into clamouring solos of synthetic marvel. A huge dub-tee-eff from all angles. Grip sic widdit.

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    Drainolith – Deepwater, PA

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    Drainolith – You Paid For It

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