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March 16th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Various Artists – The Lemon Tape

Various Artists - The Lemon Tape
Paisley rays of avant-pop sunshine emanate from this overflowing homage to the Age of Aquarius. Montreal’s best and brightest contribute a tune (or two, or three) under a variety of guises, all filed under psych, cosmic and library music taxonomy. From Brave Radar’s hazy afternoon bliss-outs to JLK’s biker blaze and multiple turns from label founder Christian Richer, this meticulous mixtape is a tie-dye dream come true. All in all, Asaël Robitaille steals the show and proves his secret weapon status with a grip of winners from his various projects. Wake up sucking on a lemon with a grin from ear to ear.

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Brave Radar – A Spike

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Bataille Solaire – Harpe Pierreries Chatoiement

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The Haiduks – A Tide Through The Flames

February 8th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Escapists – HPPD Island

Escapists - HDDP Island
Swaddling their inaugural cassette in a surgical glove cocoon, Montreal’s newest modular synth and electronics power duo scramble brains like Ramsay does eggs. The inspired mind-meld of Frank “Hobo” De Gallo and Jesse “Meat Parade” Osborne-Lanthier oozes from ear to ear with effervescent washes, high-pitched squeaks and interplanetary gabber in a post-space-rave chillout room. The totemic objects encased within offer a time capsule from the year 2046. O.R. They?

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Escapists – Ergoline Sky (excerpt)

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Escapists – The Lysergide Shores (excerpt)

August 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Philip Dickau – Rough Dump Spring Fever

Edmontonian Philip Dickau’s new cassette Rough Dump Spring Fever slivers through the vestiges of electronic normalcy with frightening delicacy and abject gentleness. An ambient traipse through worldly drone, experimental kosmiche, synths and druggy psychedelia, these five “tracks” are the celestial aesopia of young innocence cobbled with surgical precision. “After the Having” quells Astarian communiqué with bellowed and distant modals, as does finale “The Modernist”, a comparatively brief voyage of Rileyean letup. Keep your eyes on the stars and the streets; more to come from this young planetary adventurer.

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Philip Dickau – The Modernist

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Philip Dickau – After the Having

July 7th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Yankee Yankee – Empty Room

USSR co-founder Whitney Ota continues his outernational explorations with this solo cassette of shimmering synth space-outs and voodoo ritual guitars. Blasting through wormholes like the Enterprise captained by Sir Richard Bishop, these sidelong voyages subsequently float and flicker with the infinite sparks of faux fire. The flip opens with a shuddering supernova of stereo (pan) sanctity best heard at a high volume, so grip this tape, flip it on in a solitary space and drift off into the void.

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Yankee Yankee – A Edit

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Yankee Yankee – B Edit

May 18th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Velvet Chrome – Hall of Mirrors

Just in time for tour, Frank Hobo and the infamous guitar shredder JLK drop this CD (remember those?) of haunted ramblings down the dustbowl backroads. As Velvet Chrome, the power couple combines sensibilities to create a toxic concoction of No Wave skree and ugly Americana laced with hits from the cosmic blotter. Though the majority of these workouts are propelled by primitive drum beats and detuned six-string strategies, seven-minute drifter “Glass Maze” is a primarily vocal-based drone, and closer “Miles Away” is one of the most beautiful pieces of Motorik bliss this side of Neu! 75. A merch table must.

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Velvet Chrome – Devil’s Gold

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Velvet Chrome – Miles Away

August 20th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Grimes – Halfaxa

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


From the cosmic slop of Aaron Levin:
If Grimes’ tour CDR (to be officially released via Arbutus on September 30th at Pop Montreal) is any indication, the cosmic-pop deity is transcending into a vocal-cruising eidolon of celestial proportions. Layers of wyspy vocals form the cooling galaxies of Halfaxa while her minimal drums synthesize Enja‘s lingering espers into a club anthem fit for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Or the Mos Eisley Cantina. Either way, Grimes’ future-stream sinusoids are peeling wigs.

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Grimes – devon

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Grimes – wereglid

July 31st, 2009

Endangered Levin.

COSMETICS … This Week In **Space …
COSMETICS
Vancouver, BC
File-Under: Cosmic minimal disco
::web/sounds::

OK, I apologize for not posting a review yesterday. I was too busy trying to see Lethbridge’s weird-science-punk marvella Endangered Ape, Calgary’s what-is-going-on-in-that-city Hunter Gatherer, and hobo power-popper Nobunny. All of this spread over two venues and many hours. Endangered Ape and Hunter Gatherer will be coming very soon to a Weird Canada nearest you.

In the meantime I’ll posted my latest **Space obsession. Maybe I’ll even start a “This Week in **Space” for those great bands that don’t have releases yet.

COSMETICS (Vancouver, BC)
File Under: Cosmic disco wave.
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