September 1st, 2010
From the diocese of Aaron Levin:
On (possibly) their last release, PiG drill into a heady mix of miscreant-skiddery and Lorca-era Tim Buckley. It’s sundown at the crest of oblivion and PiG remain defiant, twisting the threads of their home-brewed, basement psychedelia for your voyeuristic pleasure. Their spastic death-punk has fermented into an outerworld sonomoly; a dialectic entombed by Matt Samways’ fearless mantra. “Tragic Venus”‘ piercing bass and shimmering clamour populate your neural pathways with the lysergic elements required to process the droning “Imminent Deity.” This new, indivisible sound is surrounded with “Outro”‘s industrial racket and solidifies their shrine within Canada’s fringe vortex. PiG remain a huge inspiration for Weird Canada. For that, and so much more, we will miss them dearly. XOXOGRIPXOXO.
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PiG – Tragic Venus
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PiG – Immanent Deity
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PiG – Outro
File under: aaron levin // campaign for infinity // death // metal // psych // punk
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June 14th, 2010
From the swampy high-life of Aaron Levin:
Between the legs of a warped B-52s / Cramps hybranoid exists the maligned and twisted vibrations of Montreal’s Futensil. Their atonal jungle of mystic wyrdabilly shivers beneath Emily’s shrieks while Psychic Handshake CIO Graeme Langdon chants his way through a distant spell of psychedelic conjure. The overall emotional damage is an addicting aural experience for any futurotic voodoo voyeur.
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Futensil – AWOL a Go Go
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Futensil – Black Mold
File under: aaron levin // campaign for infinity // punk // rockabilly // weird punk
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April 23rd, 2010
From the staff of (omon) Ra, as wielded by Aaron Levin:
Omon Ra II lands in Montreal and immediately unleashes a seething explosion of post-hyperbole psych-punk: relentless equalizer rejection and blazing guitar shreddery battling for every magnetic millimeter. Meanwhile, Dirty Beaches departs Montreal for sunny Vancouver and metamorphoses into wild nullophonic mystic rockisms; wasted, minimally-greased rockabilly for deadbeat cowboys and vintage thuggery. An odd paring, but this isn’t the first time the Omon moniker sat beside something equally disparate. Mind = blown.
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Dirty Beaches – Black Horses Take 1
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Omon Ra II – Jimmy
File under: aaron levin // campaign for infinity // hard rock // psych // punk // rockabilly // weird
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March 30th, 2010
From the magnetic eyes of Aaron Levin:
Continuing with their general disregard for genre fortification, PIG return with a c26 frothing with ataxic punk and chaotic sludge. After a side of perilous adventures through mires of improvised drones and guitar destruction, the quadro deliver a full blast of 90s doom-punk occultism. Part Altered Beast, part Ghosts and Goblins, Magnetic synthesizes the darkest parts of adjective-punk and coagulates them into an eerie resin of fractured sounds. A rare gift stolen from the hand of Moira. NO CONTINUES. GRIP++
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PIG – HEATHERS
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PIG – SOUTHERN DROWN
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PIG – MAGNETIC
File under: 90s // aaron levin // adjective-punk // campaign for infinity // doom // experimental // noise // punk // sludge
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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
File under: 90s // aaron levin // campaign for infinity // mtl // pop
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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
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: quebec | 3 Comments »
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
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: ontario | 7 Comments »
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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