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August 2nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Red Mass – Sadness

The latest release from Red Mass kicks off with the bluesy groove-mare “Mule Stone Hourly.” Above a froth of warbling riff and fuzz, bandleader Choyce calls across the muck. “I work these hands/Bloody hands,” he moans, breaking off into a Sabbathy solo overlaid with searching slide guitars far from the flesh and far into the ether. From here, we hear a rasping spoken lament for Arlis Perry, a woman murdered by ice pick at Stanford University in 1974, intoned over a crackling bed of white noise and sonic hiss-flames. There’s also a bleakly romantic reflection on mercy — the ugly, Nick Cave-ian kind — and the jingle-stomper “Mamie’s Got the Moves,” a “Papa Oom Mow Mow” for a generation of consumptives. It’s the happiest song on a tape called Sadness, and yet somehow it prowled my dreams, lingering and restless, for weeks.

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Red Mass – Mule Stone Hourly

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Red Mass – Mamie’s Got the Moves

July 29th, 2011

New Canadiana :: The Group Sound – Secret Girlfriend

The ebb and flow of washy guitars echoing across the Pacific form the most beautiful sunset of sweet lyrics on Secret Girlfriend. Dance on the horizon and cast the longest shining reflection that reaches your toes as you dip into the Group Sound. Love letters written in sand dunes on the warmest night in July remind you why you loved pop when you were young and thirsty. These road songs for a trip rise to the top of Mt. Fuji and scream “baby please don’t go!” as you skydive down to earth and land in a banana split.

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The Group Sound – Secret Goilfriend

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The Group Sound – Laurie

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The Group Sound – Hey Gurl

July 26th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Babysitter – Tape IV

The latest chapter in the Babysitter’s club saga finds Victoria’s finest sticking to the plot with a few fresh twists. Tape IV’s revolution rock riff-o-rama is as gloriously busted as ever, teeming with teenage lobotomy jangle and howled manifestos to tear down the walls. Yet this time around, the band also dims the lights for a jellybean slow dance with your junior high squeeze, then smokes out the gym for the eight-minute blazer jam “Marijuana Overdrive.” Lock up your daughters and look for these hooligans crossing Canada in the fall.

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Babysitter – Born Superior

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Babysitter – 1000 Girls

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Babysitter – Waste

July 19th, 2011

New Canadiana :: The Gooeys – Scary Black Cherry Nap

Craig Storm and his seasick sailors of the good ship Gooey bob, surf and wooze through puddles of organ-fried carnival candy paisley-pop puke on this cavity-rotting platter from the Cave. Moving past deadpan and directly onto dead, Storm sounds like he’d rather be filing his T4s than fronting this squadron of subterranean vets, roping in past and present card carrying members of Gaye Rage, Grown Ups and the mammy slappin’ Topless Mongos. Whether flipping herky jerk tempos like BBQ burgers or dipping scuba dive keys like the B-52s, this is the dictionary definition of quintessential, kiddies.

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The Gooeys – Scary Black Cherry Nap

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The Gooeys – Lay Down and Die

July 18th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Skip Jensen – The Spirit Of The Ghost

Grafting a yippin’n'yodellin’ head onto garage’s grimy shoulders, Skip Jensen has created a hybrid monster, a ten-gallon-hat sporting scuzzball who fancies a two-step with the fuzzbox dialed up. Skip’s world-weary howl winds its way around the barroom, dragging behind it a mesmeric, slimy tail of guitar riffage. Skip jams several blotters’ worth of campfire undulations into wild-eyed jams like “Crows”, then drops into the lazy-drunk gait of tracks like “As Much As I Do.” Is that a honky-tonk piano I hear on “Revival” or is it just the “Spirit of the Ghost” dripping yesteryear’s blood all over the garage?

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Skip Jensen – The Spirit of the Ghost

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Skip Jensen – Revival

June 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Babysitter – Tape III

Babysitting is a rite of passage for many suburban teens, much like drinking covert beer and jamming the Stooges is for many more a rebellious youth. It’s not a stretch to think that the dudes of Babysitter spent their formative years doing just that – listening to beer-drenched shreddery built from minimal beats, lacerating riffs and howling vocals. Thankfully, they play it all with enough recklessness and discipline to make it seem genuinely wild, permeating your mind with brilliant teenage nostalgia.

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Babysitter – Summer of Luv

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Babysitter – Paralyzer Ponch

April 29th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Mouth – Could You Lie to a Camera

Some say it ain’t always good to look at the world through rose-coloured glasses; Mouth want you to put on the shades, and never take ‘em off. Gravelly garage rawk of a Lips/Jonestownian ilk, these blissed-out rabblerousers hearken nicely back to sweaty basements of ’66 and ’07. Urban libertines play sock hops (“Fortune Teller Blues”), black-lit comedowns (“Déjà Vu”) and scratchy tape-to-tape harmonies (“Clever Disguise”). Come one come all to a greasy baptism revival; heavy leather on sweaty bods.

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Mouth – Fortune Teller Blues

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Mouth – Deja Vu

April 27th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Mess Folk // Fuck Montreal – Split

Mess Folk: C’est l’été, il fait chaud pis t’es quand même dans ce bar-là, celui qui va faire mal le lendemain et qui se cure avec une plottée de bines pis les fonds de la veille. Du rock garage boueux qui sonne comme si tu te faisais verser de la bière dans les trous d’oreille. Tu te réveilles hungover, tu cales ton Gatorade trop vite pis tu vires la cassette de bord. Fuck Montreal sonne le glas et te paraphrase un mal de tête dans lequel se confondent des chants tribaux pis des comptines patibulaires sur un fond de grunge hanté. Fuck Montreal essaie peut-être de te faire peur, mais t’es là pour leur montrer que t’es pas pire tuff pis que tu combats le feu par le feu – pis que plus que ça fait mal, moins ça fait mal.

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Mess Folk – No Jobs

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Fuck Montreal – Bucket of Blood

April 1st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Topless Mongos – Hey My My b/w Theme from Human Centipede

These mongos mix furiosity, intensity, hooks, throw back and right now! You’ll fall in love with your tormentor. Hard boiled garage punk on the A-side, full of slurred, straight-up, brief-and-rough hooks that’ll dig deep into your brain. Side B is similarly grimy and tight, with some pervey muffled vox over old-but-new gar(b)agey riffs, with nods to the sickest flick. After 60 years, rock ‘n roll is still exciting, and you have bands like the Topless Mongos to thank.

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Topless Mongos – Hey My My

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Topless Mongos – Rowena

February 9th, 2011

New Canadiana :: NEEDLES//PINS – Drop It b/w Kalifornia Korner

While compiling the Bloodstains Across British Columbia 7”, I asked bands to recommend their favourite new Vancouver band that I hadn’t heard of yet, and almost everyone came up with the same answer. NEEDLES//PINS fit nicely in the modern garage-pop cosmos currently being mined in Ottawa (White Wires, Steve Adamyk) and the Bay Area (Nobunny, Bare Wires, etc). While it can be easy to dismiss genre bands, NEEDLES//PINS gets it right where so many bands fail: hooks and songwriting. Incredible songcraft is at work here, both songs being the winning combination of instantly likable and infinitely memorable. Top notch stuff, highly recommended.

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NEEDLES//PINS – Drop It

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NEEDLES//PINS – Kalifornia Korner

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