Babysitter – Born Superior

Babysitter – 1000 Girls
Babysitter – Waste

Babysitter – Summer of Luv
Babysitter – Paralyzer Ponch

Babysitter – Nineteen Sixty Nineties
Babysitter – Talkin’ ‘Bout the New Generation
Babysitter – Angel of Death

From the spirited christmas of Aaron Levin:
Bob Bryden‘s recorded legacy is a humbling testament to the zenith of teenage creative potential. At the age of eighteen, Bob walked into a studio to record his fourth LP, the second under the banner of his hand-picked band Christmas (having already recorded two LPs as a leading member of Reign Ghost). Heritage remains a brilliant synthesis of lysergic hard-rock and the emerging streams of progressive shreddery. Crisp, punchy drums burst through the continuous leads, crunchy guitar, and trademark machine-gun bass lines to reveal an imaginative, surprising, and radiant vision of pop musics’ future. One of the best and most creative records released in Canada and a great way to start adventuring within Byrden’s amazing career.
Christmas – April Mountain
Christmas – Heritage

From the modern methods of Aaron Levin:
Another strange tangent for Sydney’s unruly mastodon whose flagrant exposé into rock’s genetic grammar will drop needles and crank heads. The tar-pond ensemble jumped into the studio for a deluxe release on France’s Plastic Spoon Records, resulting in a strangely clear vision into the damaged mind of lead songwriter Philip Tarr; blistering hard-rock riding a drug-laced 70s high cut with modern nihilism and philosophical solos. RIPPIN’.
Mess Folk – Modern Man
Mess Folk – Damaged Babe

From the staff of (omon) Ra, as wielded by Aaron Levin:
Omon Ra II lands in Montreal and immediately unleashes a seething explosion of post-hyperbole psych-punk: relentless equalizer rejection and blazing guitar shreddery battling for every magnetic millimeter. Meanwhile, Dirty Beaches departs Montreal for sunny Vancouver and metamorphoses into wild nullophonic mystic rockisms; wasted, minimally-greased rockabilly for deadbeat cowboys and vintage thuggery. An odd paring, but this isn’t the first time the Omon moniker sat beside something equally disparate. Mind = blown.
Dirty Beaches – Black Horses Take 1
Omon Ra II – Jimmy

From the partially-ordered, semi-continuous grippage of Aaron Levin:
We have witnessed the possessed meanderings of teenagers pushed to the creative fringe for years. It’s not uncommon these days for some residential weirdo to emerge from their suburban cave with a MySpace full of damaged sounds teetering on the edge of unsanity. This was not the case for Canada’s underground rock scene of the 60s, whose output pales numerically to our American counterparts, owing to a lack of custom pressing plants and home-recording equipment. Which is why it’s incredible that Calgarian Doug Wong, at the tail end of 1969, when psychedelic music delivered its last blow to the world’s unsuspecting youth, decided to package the last issue of his high-school newspaper with a 7″ of school “rock bands” (I’ve posted the full story here). The resulting 7″ has become a truly bewildering artifact of Canada’s marginalized fringe music community: a compilation of unfettered teenage expression; trashy, face-melting, fuzz-drenched glorious hard-rock mingling amongst Dylan-inspired folk and sunshine pop. A beautiful peak into the small lives of folk-club weirdos at a time when their sounds usually withered and vanished. Amazing and incredibly rare. This is the third time I’ve written about this record and it still astounds me.
Wrinkled Pumpkin – Hello
Sundance Reunion – I’m Leaving
Dusk – Three Thirty Two