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September 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Jom Comyn – Sunstroke EP

From the brutalist centre of Jared Majeski:
Mentioned before are the utterances and inspirations one communicates through simple habitation of an isolated, brutalist centre like Edmonton. Pleasantly mercurial, Jom Comyn’s disparate croonerism makes us venture not waaaaaaay up, but way in; another rural-reared summation of despair, darkness, love and family. Sunstroke fuses steady melody (“Hatchet in the Garage”), sharp-toned proggy instrumentation (“Heatstroke”) and neighbourly back-up; all of course lathed with that familiar subtly of Jim Cuming’s monochromatic vocals. Wherever your tiny existence rests each night, remember to collect dust, soak up the eternal cold and take heed of your surroundings.

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Jom Comyn – Hatchet in Garage

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Jom Comyn – Heatstroke

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August 22nd, 2010

Departures :: The Brazda Brothers – The Brazda Brothers

The Brazda Brothers
The Brazda Brothers
(Dominion)
??, ON
Originally Released: 1973


From the Russian imports of Aaron Levin:
These two Russian hippie-bros emigrate to Ontario and release an album celebrating the pastoral scenery of their new home. With thick, stilted Ruskie accents and strange instruments (Cordovox?) they weaved twelve streams of folk-rock textures in dedication to our unique landscape. Their foreign perspective is the album’s greatest strength; take their journey and visualize the vast industrial heartland through outside, lysergic eyes. The resulting innocence, both serene and moving, place the Brazda Brothers alongside other nationalized fringe-folk canon whose trails into uncharted territory shaped our anomalous soundscape (Riverson, Ptarmigan, PCC, etc). The band claims that 5,000 copies were pressed but the number of known copies states otherwise. Released on a budget label concerned mostly with fiddle and children LPs. I flipped my lid when I found a sealed copy of this!

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The Brazda Brothers – Gemini

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The Brazda Brothers – 20th Century

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The Brazda Brothers – Blooming Flowers

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March 19th, 2010

Review :: The Friendly Dimension – Choose Your Own Adventure

The Friendly Dimension
Choose Your Own Adventure
(Self-Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the unidimensional freak show of Aaron Levin:
Take a collection of B-sides and rarities by a group with only one official release and you have a snapshot of our wasted youth. Choose Your Own Adventure is a voyeurs guide to summers spent trolling sidewalks for personal anthems. There is truth in the dirty concrete beat to death by the endless footsteps of teenagers. Visit any mall and you’ll hear it: resilient visions of psychotropic folk-rock, catalysts for our lazy, veiled teendom, and subconscious grooves pulling us back to summers of hidden cigarettes and hairspray secrets. We’ve all been teenagers bored to death by a world with too much to offer. Let The Friendly Dimension be your guide. If you want to enter their audible vortex, click here. If you’re suspicious of what they’re offering and would like to win free stuff from the internet, click here.

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The Friendly Dimension – Samurai

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The Friendly Dimension – Hero in my Head

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The Friendly Dimension – Readhair

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