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January 26th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Sean Nicholas Savage – Flamingo

Sean Nicholas Savage - Flamingo
From the carnie games of Pam Haasen:
If small town fairs were hip to the culture of cheap thrills and cheese appeal that speaks to my inner child, I’d hear Flamingo on the tinny speakers beside my head while I wait in line for elephant ears and ride vouchers. Sean Savage is calmer and quieter here than I’ve known him to be. These are vaguely erotic hand-holding and ferris-wheel-secret-telling songs. I want to win the big bear prize for my gal and make promises to her while the sun sets. Lovely meets funny as Sean trills, woos and oohs you.

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Sean Nicholas Savage – She Was The One

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Sean Nicholas Savage – Chin Chin

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October 14th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Tonstartssbandht – Sinkhole Storm and Sandwich

From the monster waves of Gabriel Jasmin:
Two brotherly blazing long-form jams. Sinkhole Storm and Sandwich finds trashcan twang and dirty tremolo swells surfing atop monster waves of endless pulsing momentum. Amps cranked so far beyond breaking point, it’s a miracle such scorching tones didn’t eat right through the four-track tape. “Hotel For Gods” cools off from the acid heat wave with a steady, heady mixture of opaque synth and guitar ripples. A lasting, slow burning summer haze, and real tonal sludge.

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Tonstartssbandht – Sinkhole Storm and Sandwich (Excerpt)

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Tonstartssbandht – Hotel For Gods (Excerpt)

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August 12th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Count Dracula // Kool Music – Won Ton Jaz

From the kung fu tableau of Pam Haasen:
In my quiet bedroom I hear the Wilhelm scream of Count Dracula (a.k.a. Sean Nicholas Savage) echoing from outer space travel-log mixtapes as the ship travels faster than the speed of light over Montreal. From his U.F.O. he sends ray beams of steel drums, lilting vocals and, of course, catchy lyrics that no one else could pull off (sex, sweet sex). Kool Music offers a side of ’80s ice cold film soundtrack with a meditative swirl as the chewy centre. Calm before the sewer storm? Yeah. It’s a tableau of sex, action, sunglasses and chilly, kung fu svelte babes in the ‘hood.

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Kool Music – Hot House

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Count Dracula – UFO

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Count Dracula – True Love

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June 9th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Tonstartssbandht – Now I Am Become

From the Sean Connery of Jesse Locke:
The Tonstartssbros continue their plea for shred-head redemption with this fully zoned follow-up to the Russian tour tape. Hooting and hollering like a pair of chimps freed from captivity, they Jumanji through the streets while guitars wail the distress call. “Big Day Today” juxtaposes boys’ choir harmonies with undulating amp noise, “Eifdn A AOD Sulie” is a six-minute ramble through Newer Weirder Americana, and “Shot To La Parc” is my pick for Big Shiny Tunes 47. Grip with both hands and become.

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Tonstartssbandht – Big Day Today

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Tonstartssbandht – Shot To La Parc

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April 20th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Sean Nicholas Savage – Trippple Midnight Karma

From the disco double rainbows of Mark Teo:
Caressing serotonin receptors like streetlight halos after a summertime all-nighter, Trippple Midnight Karma soothes like an Alka Seltzer before naptime. Windows-down synth weaves between wham-chk syncopation — coming off like a middle-schooler’s imitation of an eras-passed softcore soundtrack — and laissez-faire Latin guitar solos, while Savage’s suave falsetto provides the Halls to the Sting of a sore throat. Hailed as his return to the bedroom, Trippple Midnight Karma has Savage producing disco double rainbows with a CMYK palette — or, perhaps, the best archeological find from Bleu Nuit’s coffers.

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Sean Nicholas Savage – Serious Eyes

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Sean Nicholas Savage – Getting To Know Myself

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November 24th, 2010

Recommended Grippage :: Grimes – Halfaxa

A while back I wrote about Grimes’ tour CDR Halfaxa. Well, as the tour CDR wasn’t really officially available, I thought I’d step in and tell you that its been officially released in a beautiful digipack via Arbutus Records! Grip while supplies lasts!

PS – I’m back after a short GOBBLE FEST break.

Hearts,

Aaron Levin
Weird Canada / Cantor Records

Grimes
Halfaxa
(Arbutus Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

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November 5th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Sean Nicholas Savage – Mutual Feelings (of Respect and Admiration)

Sean Nicholas Savage
Mutual Feelings (of Respect and Admiration)
(Arbutus Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the distant dancing of Jesse Locke:
DISCO DOESN’T SUCK. As perpetual Weird Canada favourite Sean Savage attests, the d-word doesn’t have to signify the brothers Gibb, a teenaged Travolta, or in the immortal words of Van Dyke Parks, “white boy pepper grinder madness.” Instead, Savage gives us swoon-worthy strings (with arrangements from the Silly Kissers’ David Carriere plus guest vox from singer Jane Penny), glittery synths, beachy bongos, and a soft-rock disco dancehall update to his classic pop romanticism. Turns out the Parisian night suit fits Savage perfectly.

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Sean Nicholas Savage – Misery Mountain

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Sean Nicholas Savage – Disco Dancing

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September 21st, 2010

Arbutus Records & Weird Canada @ Pop Montreal

Arbutus Records Showcase
Pop Montreal 2010
(Thursday September 30, 2010 @ The Rialto Theatre)
Montreal, QC
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From the new indie of Aaron Levin:
In the closing tides of 2010 there are few festivals left. And as this little corner of a website gleaned a few weeks ago, Canada’s premiere indie-music festival (Pop Montreal) came through with a succinct and telling slogan: Weird is the New Indie. The obvious correlation is incidental, but the shifting focus to emerging music is a welcomed modulation in agenda. And to further drive the point home, Pop Montreal and Weird Canada will be presenting a showcase from one of Canada’s furthest reaching boutique imprints. Arbutus Records (home to Sean Nicholas Savage, Grimes, Silly Kissers and many more) has become an asylum for many westward ex-pats flourishing within the inexplicable fringe-pop spectrum and has occupied prime real estate within Weird Canada’s own borders. The label has grown from an e-mail address and a cd burner to a veritable force within the diy pop explosion running its course through our collective consciousness. Arbutus’ materials have appeared on Pitchfork, Gorilla VS Bear, Altered Zones, Stereogum, Weird Canada (ha!), etc. and I can say without hyperbole that many within the indie music community are anxiously awaiting to hear their future. So, with much excitement, I’d like to encourage all of our readers in-and-around the Montreal area to attend both Pop Montreal and one of the best showcases during the five-day festival. Sebastian Cowan has worked many magicks; for that we love him dearly. Congratulations!

Pop Montreal & Weird Canada Present
Arbutus Records Showcase
SILLY KISSERS
GRIMES (album release)
POP WINDS
BLUE HAWAII
Date: Thursday September 30th @ 9pm
Location: The Rialto Theatre
Price: Five Dollars (available at Phonopolis & Cheap Thrills)

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June 18th, 2010

Review :: Blue Hawaii – Blooming Summer

Blue Hawaii
Blooming Summer
(Arbutus Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the summery low-life of Aaron Levin:
Arbutus Records is at the centre of a monstrous pop vortex. Sean Nicholas Savage, Silly Kissers, Braids, Pop Winds, Grimes, and now Montreal’s Blue Hawaii showcase the breadth of avant-pop nuances circulating in their sphere of electromagnetic influence. Every burnout needs a soundtrack to escape the sun; a reason to ride the swashes of summery circuitry and gluey harmonies that crest upon Blooming Summer‘s self-referential manifesto. With Blooming Summer they will reach a chromatic zenith and swim in a stew of summer evenings and midnight exotica. So can you. GRIP.

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Blue Hawaii – Blue Gowns

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Blue Hawaii – Dream Electrixra

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February 17th, 2010

Review :: Silly Kissers – Precious Necklace

Silly Kissers
Precious Necklace
(Arbutus Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the perilous necklace of Aaron Levin:
I want to live Precious Necklace. I want tight sweaters. VIP access to the clurb. Double martinis. False love. Teen soundtracks blasting. I want the whole world in a song and I want to dance; pulsing drum machines, echoey vocals and exaggerated pop-harmonies. Let the music take you back in time. Nintendo, cocaine, plastic people, and radio hits. Sex in bathrooms and parental neglect. Stereotypes. We’ve lost our youth. We can take it back. The Silly Kissers, in a futuristic act of heroism, are our only hope. Their fourth and most realized effort to-date showcases their perfected 80s-pop ventriloquism. Precious Necklace is a re-imagining that only nostalgia can deliver; glossing over the weaknesses of an era we will never truly understand and manipulating the pearls of its bounty to deliver every genre’s saving grace: synthetic pop perfection. Precious Necklace, released as a limited-edition 10″ on Montreal’s Arbutus Records, is a 10/10 major-scale heart-melt. The world has never needed so much. They will deliver. GRIP. IT. NOW.

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Silly Kissers – You Could Even Like Me

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Silly Kissers – Treat Me Like You Do

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Silly Kissers – Precious Necklace

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