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November 11th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Crosss – Bones Brigade b/w Mountain King

Crosss
Bones Brigade b/w Mountain King
(Craft Singles // Electric Voice)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::

From the Animal Chin of Jesse Locke:

Craft Singles chief exec Andy March puts his best flower power foot forward on this scorched denim vest jambone. Anglofied undulations linger in the myst of heart-shaped hooks and the algebraic pterodactyl armed stick work of a Haligonian stalwart, which is all just an ostentatious way of saying that these songs totally rock.

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Crosss – Bones Brigade

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Crosss – Mountain King

File under: craft singles // crosss // electric voice // futurist // grunge // halifax // jesse locke // metal // psych // psychedelic // toronto
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April 27th, 2011

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

Mess Folk // Fuck Montreal
Split
(Scotch Tapes // Radiator)
Sydney, NS // Halifax, NS
::web/sounds:: // ::web/sounds::

De beaux dégâts de Benoit Poirier:

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.

From the beautiful f**king mess of Benoit Poirier:
Mess Folk: It’s the summer, it’s hot and you’re still in that bar. You know it’s gonna hurt tomorrow and you’re gonna cure it with cold beans and leftovers. The band’s sludgy garage rock sounds like having cans of beer poured into your ears. You wake up hungover, drink your Gatorade way too fast and flip the tape. Fuck Montreal make the bells toll and paraphrase a headache in which tribal chants and creepy nursery rhymes intertwine in a confused mass over spooky grunge riffs. They might try to scare you, but you’re there to show them that you’re kinda tuff and that you fight fire with fire – and that the more it hurts, the less it hurts.

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Mess Folk – No Jobs

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Fuck Montreal – Bucket of Blood

File under: benoit poirier // fuck montreal // garage // grunge // halifax // mess folk // radiator records // scotch tapes // sydney
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April 18th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Solids – Generic Dogs

Solids
Generic Dogs
(L’œil du Tigre)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

Du charcoal de Gabriel Jasmin:

Je vais vous dire un secret à propos du premier EP de Solids. Ils ont trouvé son nom, Generic Dogs, alors que les gars étaient à un BBQ, affirmant comment les saucisses sans marque font les meilleurs hot-dogs. Dans une certaine mesure, je pourrais dire la même chose de ce duo montréalais. Leur musique est simple, directe et entraînante, n’affichant aucune prétention de réinventer quoi que ce soit. Une fois assaisonnés de délicieux condiments, notamment la superbe qualité d’enregistrement et les voix en chœur, ces generic dogs méritent leur place de choix parmi les meilleurs bands de power-grunge-pop mélancolique. Je vous dévoile un autre secret à propos de ce EP : l’édition vinyle sera en vente très très bientôt.

Hot from the grill of Gabriel Jasmin:
I’ll tell you a secret about Solid’s first EP. Its name, Generic Dogs, came up when the dudes were at a BBQ, figuring how generic brand sausages make the best hot dogs. To some extent, I’m thinking the same goes for this rad Montreal duo. Their music is straight up, simple, catchy, baring no pretension of reinventing anything. Given tasty toppings, such as great recording quality and double tracked vocals, these generic dogs gain their standing among Canada’s top melancholy drenched power-grunge-pop bands. I’ll tell you another secret about this release: look for it pressed on vinyl very, very soon.

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Solids – Whatevers and Neverminds

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Solids – Generic Town

File under: gabriel jasmin // grunge // l’œil du tigre // montreal // power pop // solids
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February 21st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Clinton Machine – Gettin’ Personial

Clinton Machine
Gettin’ Personial
(Inyrdisk // Flourescent Friends)
Ottawa, ON
::web/sounds::

From the masonic heavy of Aaron Levin:

Inexplicably gnarly wall-of-soundgarden fringe-freak explosion. Clinton Machine pushes you through a vortex of bludgeoned 90s metal-zone, burnt politics, and low-end attitude that will confound and bewilder, careening your understanding of the sanctity of modern living. Gettin’ Personial is the audible collection of bedroom nightmares conjured by distant uncles lurking in every basement apartment below you. Listen with caution. Beautifull tri-color silk-screen cover. GRIPPETH!

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Clinton Machine – Sun Dog

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Clinton Machine – Good News

File under: 90s // aaron levin // clinton machine // experimental // flourescent friends // grunge // inyrdisk // ottawa // truly weird // weird
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February 7th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Service:Fair – It Ended Badly

Service:Fair
It Ended Badly
(Nowhere Fast)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::

From the revisionist pop grunge of Michael Deane:

Killing it with laid-back breezy, catchy downers and high-strung musical exclamations, Catlin Kuzyk and co. create an immensely addictive mix of swamp-sheened pop-rock gems. Evincing energetic melancholy and homemade warmth, this Brazilian Moneyennaire effortlessly belts out strangled wails and powerful vocal refrains that are always on the move between sadness and excitement. Though it’s ostensibly a contemplation on failed romance, It Ended Badly is a colossal success. The best way to listen to this driving semi-sloppy hook-filled revisionist pop grunge is on repeat.

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Service:Fair – Dad Phone

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Service:Fair – Just to be Nice

File under: brazilian money // catlin kuzyk // grunge // michael deane // nowhere fast collective // pop // service:fair
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December 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Construction & Destruction – Mutatis Mutandis

Construction & Destruction
Mutatis Mutandis
(The Quarantine)
Port Greville, NS
::web/sounds::

From the mutant mutandis of James Goddard:
Rural art-rockers radiating traces from a secluded homestead hanging over the Atlantic Ocean. Fresh like the crunch of first steps in burnt snow. Mutatis Mutandis is Construction & Destruction’s fourth bass-led caravan of hyper-text lyrics, dense guitar riffs, detached drumming and Kohakian meditations. It takes a moment to reach the place they’re coming from. Venture forth and see for yourself.

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Construction & Destruction – The Oracle

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Construction & Destruction – Bear

File under: art-rock // construction & destruction // folk // grunge // james goddard // port greville // rock // slow // the quarantine
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July 27th, 2010

Music :: Meat Curtains // Pompoir – Blue Rare

Meat Curtains // Pompoir
Blue Rare
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 235))
Halifax, NS // Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds:: // ::web/sounds::

From the blue-label rarity of James Goddard:
There is the music – loud, thrashed out, punk descended, riff heavy tunes held together by cacophonous percussion and throat tearing vocals. Then there is the politics – re-appropriating pejorative terms for female anatomy and sex acts, a jaded DIY nihilism, and the revolutionary potential of punk itself. There is the A Side – Halifax’s critic-baiting, charcuterie-themed, absurdist fem-core four piece Meat Curtains. Then there is the B Side – Vancouver’s sex-positive, weird punk, all-stars. There is…you’re still reading this crap? You should probably listen to the fuckin’ traxxx. Now. It’s imperative.

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Meat Curtains – Dead Dog

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Pompoir – Side B [excerpt]

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Meat Curtains – Get Rebel

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Meat Curtains – Pepperoni Ghost

File under: 90s // grunge // isolated now waves // james goddard // lo-fi // punk
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February 12th, 2010

Review :: Mess Folk – Something I Remember 7″

Mess Folk
Something I Remember / Give Me A Gun b/w If I Don’t Get Out
(HoZac Records)
Sydney, NS
::web/sounds::

From the solitary confinement of Aaron Levin:
Digging deep in the recesses of Sydney, Nova Scotia’s musical tar ponds, Mess Folk returns with a trio of serotonin-deprived hymns for the emotionally-challenged. Mess Folk’s HoZac debut will uproot your anchors and rip apart any notion of mental-stability. The aural spectacle sounds like lost recordings of Nirvana live in Hobbiton; a sparsely attended minor-key distortion-fest populated by meth-afflicted hobbits and rejects from Gummo‘s casting call. It’s all the more real because of its absurd projection, adding musical meanderings to ideas usually debated by stale academics. It’s uncomfortable, challenging, awful, and speaks to every secret plan you’ve made to escape the reality of being. You will hate it, but best of all: you will hate yourself. A+++.

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Mess Folk – Give Me A Gun

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Mess Folk – If I Don’t Get Out

File under: depressing // grunge // HoZac // lo-fi // punk
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February 9th, 2010

Review :: Pompoir – Exploding Time

Pompoir
Exploding Time
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 211))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the burnt locker of Paul Lawton:
At one point in the second half of Exploding in Time, Nic Hughes (Pompoir’s lead singer and leading member of Shearing Pinx) repeats “Do you feel this?” and to this I say: Yes! I am absolutely feeling this. Pompoir’s grunge has been filtered through an accentuated Vancouver-alienation, giving the songs on Exploding Time a feeling unstuck in time and place while still capturing the sounds of this relativistic-event in Vancouver’s scene. In fact, after the first few listens I had pangs of jealousy that I don’t currently live in Vancouver to hear these bands on any given weekend. I’ll go out on a limb and say, of all the records that have come out of the Vancouver scene in the last five years (and lets face it, there have been a fuck-load of records… SHPX alone have over ten thousand releases!) Pompoir’s Exploding Time lands firmly in the “essential” category. Comes in fantastic silkscreened B-Side and album-covers. The vinyl is limited to 300 copies.
[Levin's Note: The photo used in this review is the rare, test-pressing vagina-cover variant (#15/20). The actual album art is quite similar. This record slays.]

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Pompoir – Going Nowhere

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Pompoir – Krush

File under: 90s // grunge // inw // isolated now waves // punk // shearing pinx
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New Canadiana :: Crosss – Bones Brigade b/w Mountain King

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

New Canadiana :: Solids – Generic Dogs

New Canadiana :: Clinton Machine – Gettin’ Personial

New Canadiana :: Service:Fair – It Ended Badly

New Canadiana :: Construction & Destruction – Mutatis Mutandis

Music :: Meat Curtains // Pompoir – Blue Rare

Review :: Mess Folk – Something I Remember 7″

Review :: Pompoir – Exploding Time

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