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November 4th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bayonets!!! – Two Songs Regarding Faith Mountain

From the eagle faith of Jesse Locke:
Edmonton’s high drama manic panic punks are alive and kicking at the pricks on this Camaro red two-song flexi. Spasmodic bursts of windmill riffitude, boneheaded breakdowns and absurdist drill sergeant gang chants in a minute or less are all you’re going to get on this collectible sneak peek at the upcoming “long” player, and you’ll spoon it down with a grin. “This must be what it’s like playing chess with your mom / This must be what it’s like playing dress-up with your dad.” Bayonets!!! are proud parents of a Drop D student.

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Bayonets!!! – Pope of Eagleface

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Bayonets!!! – Taking Faith Mountain by Force

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August 25th, 2011

Video :: The Ether – I Have Seen the Smile [Dir. Jacqueline Lachance]

  • The Ether
  • I Have Seen the Smile
  • [Dir. By: Jacqueline Lachance]
  • Montreal, QC
  • ::web/visuals::
From the stop-motion back-rub of Aaron Levin:
An audacious chronicle of the family Solanaceae. Jacqueline Lachance takes The Ether’s infinite disharmony into ridiculous arrays of VHS mashery, forcing the stop-motion absurdity through burnt colour palettes and neck-churning cut-ups. Wither beside the translucent Tomato-narrative and abandon all attempts to capture the disparate fiction. Shred.

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February 2nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Induced Labour – Untitled 7″

From the ritual bloodlettings of Jessica Faulds:
Borne on tsunamis of guitar malice, Leslie Predy’s gremlin mutterings harsh the mellow of the past year’s beach-tinged zeitgeist. Funhouse mirror distortion perverts carnivalesque hooks, begetting a potential soundtrack to Pogo The Clown’s ritual bloodlettings. The face-liquefying thrashery is referenced in the cover’s flesh-drippings, and Induced Labour boil it all down into a thick, bloody gravy. Serve hot on a bed of hardboiled terror.

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Induced Labour – Whore Eyes

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Induced Labour – Condo Party

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October 8th, 2010

New Canadiana :: AIDS Wolf – March to the Sea

AIDS Wolf
March to the Sea
(Skin Graft Records)
Montreal, PQ
::web/sounds::


From the rented catholicism of Aaron Levin:
March to the Sea explodes with seven oppressing manifestations of philosophical guitar violence. Crushing armies of viral slot machines channel Chloe’s undulating vocal pandemonium into an ear wrenching death-camp for cosmic noise hippies. Rhythmic death warrants churn this chaos into a miasma smelting your grey matter with fractal impurities. Days later their majestic penetration shall rear its polluted palette with beautiful results. Phenomenal. Canada’s most divisive band? Indeed. Their cover of Throbbing Gristle’s “Very Friendly is devastating. But I’ll save that for future enthusiasm. Until then…

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AIDS Wolf – Suck Is Happiness

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AIDS Wolf – Cake on August 1st

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August 27th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Induced Labour – Induced Labour

Induced Labour
Induced Labour
(Self Released)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::


From the forced pregnancy of Aaron Levin:
Frenetic, heavy, and relentless art-punk from Toronto featuring the gif-conjuring shrieking of illustrator and Weird Canada logo-creator Leslie Predy. Induced Labour’s debut c4 (!!) is a pulverizing tour through cassette-hell; a face-smashing, ankle-snapping, crouton-crushing puke-punk heaven. Gorge yourself in the glory of their ritual.

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Induced Labour – All Flesh is Grass

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Induced Labour – Reality Breakdown [No Trend cover]

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July 16th, 2010

Review :: Fuck The Tundra – Grin Diesel

Fuck The Tundra
Grin Diesel
(Bart Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the teen steamings of Jesse Locke:
Midway through their final set at the Bart Records showcase for Sled Island 2010, Fuck the Tundra’s hyperactive frontman pushed the crowd back, tucked to his toes and hucked a massive flat ground back flip. That gymnastic feat was impressive enough, yet it was still overshadowed by a pitch-perfect performance of all six songs from their debut cassette, one of this year’s most jaw dropping releases. Throughout Grin Diesel’s succinct 16 minutes, the quartet tears into 31G-style post-hardcore with pulse quickening drum fills, spidery dueling guitars and mathematical change-ups, all peppered with their bizarre sense of humor. Most surprising is the serenely summery yet still mathy instrumental “Eliminator Boat Duel,” an ear-pleasing interlude amidst the chronicles of ridiculous.

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Fuck The Tundra – Gintro

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Fuck The Tundra – Eliminator Boat Duel

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April 14th, 2010

Review :: The Poly Shores – White Fear b/w Hentai Is Too Art

The Poly Shores
White Fear b/w Hentai Is Too Art
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the biodome of Jesse Locke:
Not since the mercifully short-lived local music in-joke Lorrie Matheson’s Cock has Calgary had a band name as ludicrous as The Poly Shores. All the same, don’t be fooled by their fondness for purple sticky punch as these scrappy, spazzy berzerkers mean their own brand of business. Pitched somewhere between Ponytail, Be Your Own Pet and Toni Basil their debut two-song blast is now available on CD and glorious cassingle. Listen for the stone cold funky basslines, shark-toothed guitars and smart/stupid sloganistic lyrics like “guns don’t kill people, love kills people…” Wheez the juice!

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The Poly Shores – White Fear

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The Poly Shores – Hentai Is Too Art

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February 23rd, 2010

Review :: Colic – Best to Your Family

Colic
Best to Your Family
(Self Released)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the colic cleanse of Aaron Levin:
Colic resides as my favorite left-field discovery of 2009, splintering my identity with an onslaught of pop-sprinkled atonal adjective-everything. Best to Your Family reads like a distasteful Japanese stereotype: hyperactive occult meanderings, bent reflections from unknown metals, and piercing waves of inter-dimensional origin. Imagine Big Mac handed you his demo tape after a weird inter-terrestrial mind-meld; it’s addicting, unearthly, and completely fringe. Yet, it’s greatest strength is making the whole rite-of-passage engaging by burying the subtle popyness within layers of instrumental shreddery. A certified unique listening experience. Genuinely strange artifacts of this ilk are rare. File-under ??????

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Colic – Keys

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Colic – Cold Time

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Colic – At 30,000 ft.

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August 5th, 2009

To the point.

Bayonets!!! - To The Point Bayonets!!!
To The Point
(Bart Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::

Eleven thirty-second art-punk anthems straddling a thin-line between no-pop and art-wave (it would have been a lot less interesting for me to say “no-wave and art-pop,” so deal with it). Take ex-Mark Birtles Project and Wolfnote members and put them through the Homosexuals‘ school of everything-under-a-minute rock-anthemy as taught by Devo. You might be close. There’s nothing frivolous and only the good art is spared. It’s music; to the point. They obviously have a sense of humour, but the not the kind that gives you the “no” feeling. Bayonets!!! give me a “yes” feeling.

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Bayonets!!! – What Is It

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Bayonets!!! – Spank Lloyd Wright

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July 10th, 2009

Take you up. On a date.

Mount Analog - Gold AK Mount Analogue
Gold AK
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::

After seeing Mount Analogue live in Edmonton I accidentally got one of their songs stuck in my head. For five days. I would saunter into work chanting victims, victims, victims…!! People were staring at me, my boss was angry, the volunteers I work with seemed distant and reluctant to file CDs in the CJSR library. Meanwhile, I’m chanting, chanting, chanting and suddenly I started growing a beard and writing down schemes for a religious cult. I wanted other people to chant with me. A chapel full of them. With a backing band (preferably Mount Analogue if they’re available). Victims, victims, victims! Well, thankfully, after a while the Contortions-fused, four-on-the-floor disco-or-is-it-art-punk drama of Mount Analogue reached it’s religious zenith and ascended down to normality radality. That is, until they toured through Edmonton with a new cassette. And, well, the cycle begins anew. Victims, victims, victims…

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Mount Analogue – The Stranger + The Fall

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Mount Analogue – Mother Fluxus

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