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November 2nd, 2010

New Canadiana :: Phil Console – Je fuis la vie

Phil Console
Je fuis la vie
(Les Records Public Squaw)
Montréal, QC
::web/sounds::


De la fuite de Benoit Poirier:
Avec une générosité qui n’a d’égale que ses 6’quelques”, Phil Console approche ses tounes post-garage avec une légère intention no-wave, soulignée entre autres par un instrument qui remonte à la source du tapage de pied : le banjo. Avec des riffs serrés qui traversent formellement les âges (tout le monde aime le banjo), une batterie floor-tom + caisse claire minimaliste mais implacable et des chœurs inspirés d’un (son) bébé qui pleure, ce deuxième d’une série de 4 maxis est le plus punky du lot, mais M. Console vous invite à apprécier (télécharger) le reste aussi : http://www.mediafire.com/philconsole

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Phil Console – Je fuis la vie

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Phil Console – FlÉmes puissance explosion

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October 14th, 2010

Departures :: The Ugly Ducklings – Nothin’ b/w I Can Tell

The Ugly Ducklings
Nothin’ b/w I Can Tell
(Yorktown Records)
Toronto, ON
Originally Released: 1966


From the null set of Aaron Levin:
Thee quintessential garage-punk single. Much has already been written about this snarly five-piece from the centre of the world, so I’ll let the wild guitar tones and hurling vocals do the screaming. Aspiring youngsters: take note. Black-label, silver-letter variant pictured above is the first pressing. Classic Yorktown colour-label indicates a 2nd pressing. Their LP Somewhere Outside is highly recommended. It really doesn’t get better than this.

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The Ugly Ducklings – Nothin’

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October 13th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Sans AIDS // Lake Country – Sans AIDS / Lake Country Split Tape

Sans AIDS // Lake Country
Sans AIDS / Lake Country Split Tape
(Fan Club Music Club)
Edmonton, AB // Victoria, BC
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From the northern lights of Aaron Levin:
For anyone unable to witness the pantheon of talent germinating within 2010 Alberta, the Sans AIDS // Lake Country split is prime listening. Edmonton’s drowned-out, heel-stomping bass-tone mastermind Sans AIDS fills 28 minutes of blistering summertime pop nostalgia; a sound I’ll forever associate with the year we all yelled “I Can’t Handle This.” On the flip-side, Medicine Hat, Alberta ex-pats Lake Country harvest their broiling garage-punk rural jams, a hallmark signal from the infamous Mt. Royal beast that wreaked havoc through Edmonton’s sinusoidal consciousness. Essential grippage.

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Sans AIDS – Big Nothing

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Lake Country – Riversong

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Sans AIDS – But The Boat

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Lake Country – Crushin’

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September 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Slam Dunk – Slam Dunk

Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk
(Fan Club Music Club)
Victoria, BC
::web/sounds::


From the bear cub of Joni Sadler:
Slam Dunk may still be fairly young as far as bands go, but this gang of scrappy Victorians has certainly lost no time in recording some killer jams and taking the road by storm. With gang-shouted choruses, twisting fuzz guitar melodies, and seemingly endless energy, these dudes are proving seriously hard not to love. Viva Slam Dunk, indeed.

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Slam Dunk – Only Fun

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Slam Dunk – Feral Child

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August 25th, 2010

Departures :: King-Beezz – Found and Lost b/w Now

King-Beezz
Found and Lost b/w Now
(Quality)
Edmonton, AB
Originally Released: 1966


From the Lost and Found of Aaron Levin:
The King-Beezz’s third single is the toughest polyvinyl artifact from Edmonton. “Now”‘s snarling, wrangled guitar leads, put-me-down harmonies, and screaming, postured ad-libs trash every punk archetype in the purest teenage pursuit of attitude. On the A-Side, “Found and Lost”‘s jangly, loner lament, bass-walkery and bedroom percussion craft a brilliant bizarro pop-psych excursion into the recesses of vintage fringe culture. Just ridiculous stuff. ‘Twas the bees-knees (!) finding a copy complete with the glorious Quality company sleeve. A full history of the King-Beezz can be found here.

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King-Beezz – Found and Lost

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King-Beezz – Now

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July 26th, 2010

Departure :: The Esquires – Love Hides a Multitude of Sins b/w Why Should I Care

The Esquires
Love Hides a Multitude of Sins b/w Why Should I Care
(Columbia Records)
Ottawa, ON
Originally Released: 1966


From the put-me-down vortex of Aaron Levin:
After Don Norman (the original low-man!) left, at-the-time-pop band The Esquires scrambled to reform and find another label. They landed on Columbia and recorded two great garage-punk singles, this being their last and lesser-known (it’s uncomped). Killer guitar tone and classic put-me-down lyrics, the oddly-placed poppy chorus is balanced by the ripping hand-clap organ solo. Makes me want to stomp and get dumped, wallowing in a single-dude vortex full of gnarled fuzz. Except not really.

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The Esquires – Why Should I Care

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March 25th, 2010

Review :: Various Artists – Farm Team

Various Artists
Farm Team
(Hockey Dad Records)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the Vancouver-sun-hurts-my-eyes of Aaron Levin:
The literal weight of physical music in Canada is staggering and it doesn’t get easier when you move to city-level. My mind is lost within music’s autogamic jungle, paralyzed by the thought of missing rare species. Hockey Dad Records have eased this acute pressure by presenting a breadth of sounds from Vancouver’s emerging underground. From the wired-pop of Piece Pipe to the teen-garage wailings of Dead Ghosts, Farm Team‘s sloppy, unassuming packaging and curatorial prowess is worth any price of admission. It’s a wild world on the west coast. Waddle not through the sea of cosmic noise hippies and grip Farm Team for a quick guide to Vancouver’s adjective-underground. Featuring: White Lung, Timecopz, Piece Pipe, Nü Sensae, The New Values, The Moody Dudes, Hard Feelings, Defektors, Dead Ghosts, Chris-a-riffic, The Bloggers, and B-Lines.

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Piece Pipe – Burned Away

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Dead Ghosts – Spot a Trend

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Timecopz – Walk Alone

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The Bloggers – Crazy Glue

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March 23rd, 2010

Review :: Get a Life Losers – Hot Dad

Get a Life Losers
Hot Dad
(Bruised Tongue)
Ottawa, ON
::web/sounds::


From the questionably-sexy dad-life of Aaron Levin:
Take a wrong turn in Ottawa and you’ll end up on a 15-minute death-march down dead-beat alley with a blizzard of psychedelic punk desolating your ears. Welcome to Hot Dad. Get a Life Losers’ zebratic vortex of blown-out trash is a nihilistic tour through musical sadism; pulsing sounds of careening animals, the inner-howling of our trapped psychosis, and new levels of sonic weaponry. If you have 15 minutes to live and nothing but your fists and a bullshit attitude, Hot Dad is your death-row soundtrack. Certified SICCMADE.

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Get a Life Losers – Metropolis Now

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Get a Life Losers – Freebird

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Get a Life Losers – Stay Outta Centretown

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September 7th, 2009

New Canadiana :: Actual Water – Leon

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Leon
(Telephone Explosion)
Toronto, ON
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From the private mind garden of Jesse Locke:
As far as awesome-sounding made-up genres go, Actual Water’s self-described ‘nature punk’ is right up there with GOBBLE GOBBLE’s ‘flu pop’, the Bayonets!!!’ ‘now wave’ and Nu Sensae’s ‘voodoo punk’. It’s also a bit of a red herring, as you’d be hard pressed to compare the music of this Toronto trio to anything in nature, except perhaps when listening to the bird calls on the 35-minute drone piece “Zodiac Letters” which spans the entirety of Leon‘s side B. During a recent visit to Toronto and Rotate This, I was lucky enough to snatch up a copy of this cassette, and it’s now sitting near the top of my favourite finds of 2009. Sounding like a more blown-out Japanther or a friendlier Intelligence, Actual Water slather their hooks with hiss, chiming razor-blade riffs and trashy Trashmen hollers.

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Actual Water – Open Votes

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Actual Water – Pencil Legged

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August 25th, 2009

Review :: The Moby Dicks

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The Moby Dicks
(Mammoth Cave)
Lethbridge, AB
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Another brilliance piece of post-existence garage-punk from Lethbridge, Alberta, released on the soon-to-be-legendary Mammoth Cave Recordings. label. The Moby Dicks’ debute CDR is liquor-store garage-punk-revival filtered through ashtrays and pissy stair-wells; it’s puzzling, adventurous and full of Paul’s weirdly flavored recording MSG. Who is Paul? On top of being the leading member of now-defunct Endangered Ape and producer for about-to-blow-up The Myelin Sheaths, Paul is the cold glue keeping Lethbridge a veritable force in Canada’s what-the-hell-is-this? landscape. Paul’s recording techniques are paramount in separating The Moby Dicks’ debut form derivative garage-punk. Through the Mammoth Cave studios the songs transcend their late-60s roots and firmly entrench themselves in the whirlwind of hell that is the modern Terminal Boredom palette. Buy the CDR before it’s extinct.

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The Moby Dicks – Always Be Around

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The Moby Dicks – Fuck Off Baby

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The Moby Dicks – Talk Money

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