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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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September 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Peace – My Face

From the boned-out face-plant of Aaron Levin:
Huge late-pass on this beast of an LP from Edmonton ex-patriots Peace. Soaring wickedly within rippling bass-lines and jagged guitar wrenching, My Face bursts through every three-minute pop monopoly. Drawing their anthemic, addictive wave-wrought experience over enduring excursions into indie-rock jammery, My Face rips, shreds, and permanently damages every turntable lucky enough to jive with their vibrations. Pop Echo kept this one limited to 300, so grip fast while copies remain within the ether.

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Peace – The Aurora Hotel

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Peace – The Dark

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Peace – Pockets

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June 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Dog Day – The Scratches EP

From the heart furrows of Alison Lang:
The title track from Dog Day’s latest release as a two-piece steps between the swirls of dreams and the maddening grip of stupid insomnia. The spiraling keyboards from the band’s previous incarnation are no longer present, and in their stead we have Seth’s guitars and Nancy’s drums beating out a crunchy refrain while their pure wondering kid-voices bemoan all the thoughts of money and friends and old lovers circling around and around, wearing grooves in the brain along with the ticking of the hours. “Belle” is a wilder, more anxious jam that chugs forward and whispers a story of psychedelic, beautifully skittish bird-love. In the last song, “Give Me the Light,” Nancy’s tiny voice hums while the guitars groove roughly and Seth sighs and grumbles a little until the chorus tears a little crack open and a slip of daytime appears. Oh Dog Day. These three perfect songs stay heavy while easing the weight and softening the furrows of the heart.

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Dog Day – Scratches

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Dog Day – Belle

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May 11th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Brazilian Money – This Is Not A Dream

From the sweaty palms of Jesse Locke:
The boys from Brazil (ian Money) throw it all at the wall on their latest c32 dispatch, and — surprise, surprise — everything sticks. Like an overheated Pizza Pop™, This Is Not A Dream bursts at the seams with genre-blurring gunk rockers, bellyaching’ bummer folk and falsetto piss ‘n’ vinegar. Guitars warble and strum with hand-bleeding repetition, horns squeal like a second line and frontman Garrett Johnson hog hollers in a variety of voices. Wake up and grip with the sweaty-palmed quickness.

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Brazilian Money – Party Til I’m Dead

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Brazilian Money – Then You’ll Know

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Brazilian Money – Give Up That Dog

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May 6th, 2011

New Canadiana :: DoT – Mizz Teviak

From the heavy lids of Jessica Faulds:
Jesus, I wish I liked whiskey. A slow glass of the smoky stuff, a rocking chair, and DoT’s Mizz Teviak wafting from the victrola: that’s how this summer’s sweltering twilights should look. Too bad I hate hard liquids, and this album isn’t on vinyl — it’s exactly the kind of dusky, slack-jointed folk that the occasional needle-pop could only accentuate. Without reaching outside of an acoustic palate, DoT does everything from syllable-splitting yarns to softly swirling paranoiac melodies to wurly kitsch. Compounded, these tracks will have you mesmerized on your porch, too heavy-lidded to slap the mosquitos eating your flesh. Bliss.

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DoT – Jimmy Jump

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DoT – October Afternoon

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March 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bad Vibrations // Bloodhouse – Bad Blood

Du mauvais sang et de la maison des vibrations de Benoit Poirier:
D’un côté, Bad Vibrations délaisse quelque peu le power-pop-punk tordu qui caractérisait son premier maxi pour s’exposer la flanelle sur un sentier cagneux de fuzz mélancolique, de tambours itératifs et de voix éthérées et dit « allo » au grunge c88-90 d’un air à la fois triste et fâché, parce que le grunge c’est compliqué. De l’autre, Bloodhouse se magne le punk, amincit son mur du son pour laisser passer plus de fun dans son psych-garage et incite sérieusement au tapage de pied jusqu’à ce que ça saigne, entre un John Dwyer d’avant et un de maintenant. Halifax l’a, l’affaire.

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Bloodhouse – Endless Vacation

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Bad Vibrations – Waking Up

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March 16th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Deadhorse – Deadhorse

From the pentatonic reverence of Mark Teo:
Wedged in the purgatory between stations on the AM dial, Deadhorse’s ghostly Canadiana inhabits the interstitial gaps between smokehouses and smoke lodges. Celestine space waltzes (“Interstellar Remedies”) spike the punch of pissed-up blues stompers (“Glam Central” and the Jello Bia-fried “Big Blew Sky”), while “I’m a Lawyer” jitters like “Baba O’Riley”, were it an incantation to the open skies. Throughout, co-vocalists Jen Crighton and Danny Vescarelli weave Rigellian tapestries in pentatonic reverence that, somehow, avoids Crazy Horse Pentecostalism. Call it a collision of Calgary past and present, but this much is clear: Deadhorse understands that roots are meant to grow.

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Deadhorse – Interstellar Remedies

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Deadhorse – I’m a Lawyer

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February 23rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: First Nations – Wand

From the bed smokes of Aaron Levin:
Stewing in the northern isolation of Grand Prairie, First Nations’ popular brew sharply morphed into an ambitious platter of cross-provincial musicalia after lead singer Derek Janzen darted westward. Derek’s dark velvet vocals are layered over ambitious mountains of rural mystics and sprawling piano pop while a dense harmonium and brooding kick hold Wand‘s ritual to pace. The album is a highly imaginative journey through Alberta’s north, British Columbia’s vacant island, and Canada’s penchant for immortalizing creative brilliance on crisp discs of plastic-wrapped digital mirrors. This really should have come out of Calgary.

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First Nations – Cathedral Bells

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First Nations – Skeletundra II

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February 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Weed – Down In The Valley EP

From the mellow concerns of Aaron Levin:
Down in the Valley usurps your evening mellow, forcing it into a somber chamber of melancholic fuzz. Only Vancouver could produce such a soundscape at odds with itself; the summery, searing pop leads vying for your vertical while Weeds’ minor-key diorama drag you right back down. Every track is engulfed in their stilted mellow producing a level of drum-sampled pop brilliance rarely seized. This is the new wave of post-hippie Vancouver freaks. Grip their sinusoids while they still permeate.

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Weed – Release Party

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Weed – Songs For Girls

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January 10th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph

Frog Eyes
Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph
(Dead Oceans)
Victoria, BC
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From the living thunder of Joni Sadler:
Frog Eyes are veterans at the art of crafting challenging and weird pop music and Paul’s Tomb reaches the pinnacle of their craft, capturing all of their trademark elements: Carey Mercer’s warbling howl, Melanie Campbell’s staccato drumming, and the winding, roller-coaster narratives, boiling all of them down to their most potent state. They don’t waste a second with the daring, nine-minute opener; there is no fat to be trimmed anywhere on this record. Mercer and co. may well be polar opposites to the myriad of nonchalant chill-fi pop bands floating about the blogosphere, and god bless ‘em for it – they’re playing music full of emotion and heart, and never in their history have they sounded better doing it.

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Frog Eyes – A Flower in a Glove

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Frog Eyes – Styled by Dr. Roberts

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