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August 12th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Count Dracula // Kool Music – Won Ton Jaz

From the kung fu tableau of Pam Haasen:
In my quiet bedroom I hear the Wilhelm scream of Count Dracula (a.k.a. Sean Nicholas Savage) echoing from outer space travel-log mixtapes as the ship travels faster than the speed of light over Montreal. From his U.F.O. he sends ray beams of steel drums, lilting vocals and, of course, catchy lyrics that no one else could pull off (sex, sweet sex). Kool Music offers a side of ’80s ice cold film soundtrack with a meditative swirl as the chewy centre. Calm before the sewer storm? Yeah. It’s a tableau of sex, action, sunglasses and chilly, kung fu svelte babes in the ‘hood.

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Kool Music – Hot House

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Count Dracula – UFO

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Count Dracula – True Love

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July 12th, 2011

Departures :: Do Make Say Think – Demo

  • Do Make Say Think
  • Untitled
  • (Self Released)
  • Toronto, ON
  • Originally Released: 1995-1998?
  • ::web/sounds::
From the Phil-Mode Squad of Christopher Bateman:
Visitors to Weird Canada being thwarted in our direction via CBC Radio 3′s Searchlight contest may very well be aware of celebrated instrumental (decidedly not using the word post)-rock group Do Make Say Think. However, it’s safe to say you’ve never seen or heard this. My bestfriendforlife Phil came across this cassette – a very early DMST demo tape – amid a giant collection of rap 12 inches in a Toronto Sally Anne. The cover art is home-made (decidedly not using the letters DIY), the liner-notes written in pen and 2 of the cassette’s 5 songs have yet to see the light of the Internet until now. Rerecorded versions of the other 3 tracks eventually found their way onto the first DMST album, with one of the more notable differences being a freaky synth-out at either the tail end of “The Fare to Get There” or the beginning of “Disco and Haze”. Grip.

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Do Make Say Think – Crystal

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Do Make Say Think – Easing

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August 26th, 2009

Review :: Cresting – An E.P.

Cresting - An E.P. Cresting
An E.P.
(Fixture Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

I was not prepared for Cresting’s beautiful basement-pop macabre. I had a fist-full of spaghetti (dinner related) half-way through An E.P. when I suddenly realized my whole environment had changed. The combinations of cassette-warmth and sharp, repetitive percussion drenched in brilliant grey-scale low-end formed continuous sequences of pop hyperbole too advanced for my supper preparations. With this in mind, An E.P. is suitable for: late-night/early-morning bike-rides, not being homeless and waking up in a park at 2pm, realizing you got punched in the face because you’re 16 and deserved it, blowing cigarette smoke into a flashlight so you can pretend you’re film-noir, and contemplation. I’m at the contemplation stage of my Cresting cycle so let me gush: this album is thoroughly convincing, clever, innocent, wonderful, pastiche, subtle, and vivid. Do the right thing and listen while you’re sitting down. And make sure you purchase the beautifully packaged CD from Fixture Records whose aesthetic reminds me that compact discs are still a viable format.

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Cresting – Sashes

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Cresting – Sprained Ankle

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