March 11th, 2010
From the Mithril Shields of Aaron Levin:
Living in Alberta, I associate Calgary with the strange angular pop moves found on Cold Crystal Shield. In fact, I’m starting to believe the Calgary sound is just a weird amalgamation of Montreal’s pop experiments, Halifax’s 90s obsession, and Yukon’s cold isolation. It’s all summarized brilliantly by Play Guitar with their combination of incredibly catchy guitar lines and anthemic vocal harmonies, the whole mess being driven down midnight highways and rural avenues. I say rural because I can definitely hear that 90s Halifax honky-tonk pop-rock and it’s awesome. Keep your cold, crystalized eyes out for the Play Guitar LP, coming soon!
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Play Guitar – Stay and Haunt
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Play Guitar – Different Job
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December 22nd, 2009
From the burnt-cadillac remains of Aaron Levin:
Gilded Flowers, The Pink Noise’s first on Montreal’s Campaign for Infinity, is their most realized cabaret of drum-machine bustitude (and probably why the cassette is already on its third printing). Subjecting yourself to every burnt guitar solo and car-wrecked bass-line will give you the succinct impression that The Pink Noise’s front-man slammed a lot of doors, hung out in arcades, and owned a leather jacket at the age of 10. Thus, Gilded Flowers becomes an 80s vision of the future: computer screens as gateways into incomprehensible lo-bit realities, nuclear punk the specter of pop music, alleyways brimming with undiscovered societies, and every kid smoking cigarettes and selling ATM-hacking chips; it’s the slow degeneration of our welfare state into psychedelic-fiction. Freejack punk for a new generation of post-modern wastoids. And it’s all yours for $6.99.
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The Pink Noise – Shy Guy Beach
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The Pink Noise – Toad
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The Pink Noise – Cop Cars
File under: campaign for infinity // lo-fi // weird punk
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November 12th, 2009
Slow-forward to the future. Turn left and you’ll never see Han Solo shoot, having been blasted by the 28 shots of Mos Eisleyian whiskey and bravely translucent pressure waves emanating from a new Cantina band: the Holy Cobras. Dead Bodies Float in Space is Hawkwind re-imagined inside an alternate nowhere, far removed form any human consciousness; pulsing, wasted synth coursing through psychedelic veins feeding life into tired, synthetic limbs grabbing every adjective needed to self-identify. It’s a new sound for new believers and I bet their live show is more cathartic than church could ever dream of being. The cassette sounds like shit in way that further mystifies its origins; Canada Post leasing a Millennium Falcon to bring back treasures from the world of Hollywood magic. Press play, close your eyes and witness Stacia, naked, undulating next to dead, floating bodies. Campaign For Infinity is on to something. A++++++++.
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Holy Cobras – Dead Bodies Float in Space
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Holy Cobras – Mama Jihad
File under: campaign for infinity // lo-fi // psych // punk // weird
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October 7th, 2009
Weird Canada Headquarters is quickly turning into the set of Honey I Shrunk The Kids: massive piles of musical commodities providing an artifice for the true Levin hiding within this macro-musical world; a handsome (maybe?) boy dancing with a broomstick to anthems pouring out of his Sony Walkmanâ„¢. Which is why my mind is being blown by the driving intensity of Ultrathin’s two-track cassingle on Campaign For Infinity. It’s simplistic, pulverizing, heavy, marinated in every fuck-you-this-is-your-last-chance teenage outburst, oozing in TMNT-approved distortion, and complete with harrowing, effects-drenched vocals. If you’ve ever been grounded for beating up your sibling, had your car broken into, or seen some crusty skid kissing your special friend, Break-in is your midnight jam; Break-in is your yoga mat to nullity; Break-in is your methadone. And when the guitar solo hits you’re re-living the time you decked that happy-hardcore goth-freak that stole your lunch money three years ago. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, I’m outta here (to recharge the capacitators).
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Ultrathin – Break-in
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Ultrathin – Hazy Palms
File under: campaign for infinity // lo-fi // psych // punk // weird punk
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