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August 8th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Shearing Pinx – Night Danger

From the evening perils of Aaron Levin:
As a relic from the triumvirate evenings of dual guitar destruction, Night Danger contains the last recordings Shearing Pinx conjured within their triplicate state. Gripping the mic for the first time, Erin Ward obliterates all previous associations and takes “Sufferer” to a new level of avant-gothery. They further circumvent every convention with “Play Nice”, assailing a burnt blues jam into thirteen minutes of distorted twilight and chromatic space. Weaving within the trio’s high-level riffery and abject tonal assault, Night Danger uniquely steals this very special space within Canada’s creative cosmos. Posthaste grippage.

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Shearing Pinx -Sufferer

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Shearing Pinx – Play Nice

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Shearing Pinx – Trip Gamma

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March 3rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Shearing Pinx – Void White

From the steady doggin’ it of Aaron Levin:
Wrapped in the searing red-line of low-end distortion, the dualic Pinx are entombed for the first time on polyvinyl. Even as a duo, the cavernous cacophony of their sinusoids are preserved; null waves of guitar shreddery percolate every trough and groove while a pounding machine gun fires upon skin-covered cylinders into adjective-oblivion. “Dired-Out” captures their corse ritual with precise dignity, offering two minutes of harsh improv before descending into a swinging western narrative with droning vocals and pulsating guitar rhythms, ushering our frayed minds into a static groove. They. Just. Won’t. Stop. VOID GRIP.

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Shearing Pinx – Magnolia’s Tomb

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Shearing Pinx – Dried-Out

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February 9th, 2010

Review :: Pompoir – Exploding Time

Pompoir
Exploding Time
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 211))
Vancouver, BC
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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

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November 27th, 2009

Review :: Nü Sensae – Nü Sensae

Nü Sensae - Nü Sensae Nü Sensae
Nü Sensae
(Isolated Now Waves (INW #127))
Vancouver, BC
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From the stressed-graduate-student existence of Joni Sadler:
Eschewing the cheeky sloppiness that often accompanies the ‘weird punk‘ aesthetic, Vancouver’s Nü Sensae lets loose with a visceral attack of noisy jams that are over much too quick for their own good. The eight songs crammed onto this one-sided 12″ are short bursts of frantic drumming, dirty fuzzed-out bass riffs, and Andrea Luki?’s snarled vocals, all packaged together into a wholly ear-blistering listen. When they turn up the rage and Luki? unleashes that scream of hers, she sounds like the single most badass frontwoman of any band, ever. This is punk rock that isn’t afraid to be abrasive; the duo takes pride in the rough edges and lo-fi grit of their songs, and rightfully so. If only more bands had as much guts as these kids do and the sense of recklessness that actually lets them pull it all off without sounding forced. This record leaves little doubt that Nü Sensae means business.
[Levin's Note: Every time I listen to this 12" I feel like I'm getting punched in the face. Very limited pressing. GRIP OR REGRET.]

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Nü Sensae – Raven Tussle

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Nü Sensae – Peter Tripp

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September 30th, 2009

Review :: Mongst – A Poison Stronger Than Love

Mongst - A Poison Stronger Than Love Mongst
A Poison Stronger Than Love
(Isolated Now Waves) (INW #203)
Vancouver, BC
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“It’s just some songs I recorded by myself” stated JV DUB, Shearing Pinx‘s drummer and participant in a plethora of Vancouver fringing (Black Dicks (best band-name in Canada), Aerosol Constellations, Totally Ripped, and Shitty Weed). A fairly humble statement considering the miasmic bludgeoning of basement doom and hellish guitar shreddery contained within A Poison Stronger Than Love. As bewildered and shocked as I was (and still am), it’s brilliance lay in providing the type of intimacy that is addicting and shameful; we become voyeurs on the brink of some terrifying shit. Which is great, because we need unnerving music to remind us of how remarkable it is to be moved. I’ve searched long and hard for artifacts that carry this banner and they are few and far between; intense, serious, and heavy. Real heavy. Really heavy. If you listen to this cassette at night you will, and I paraphrase the wise words of rapper Plies: go to bed real; wake up reala.

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Mongst – taxed body

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Mongst – dormitude

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August 4th, 2009

Henge.

Anju / Knell - Hegne Anju Singh / Knell
Henge
(Isolated Now Waves) (INW #209)
Vancouver, BC
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Take two talented women in the experimental foray. Give them a side of C30. If you’re lucky you’ll end up with something close to Henge; two sides of atypically-driven drone. Anju Singh (of AHNA) delivers a quarter-hour piece of violin static that patiently builds into multi-feedback noise-scapes; effectively rendering the previous 14 minutes of your existence into a zone of bewilderment. On the flip we have Knell, an interesting side project of Mint Records recording artist Kellarissa, venturing deep within the rarely charted territory of vocal looping. This is not classical choral material; her voice is quickly fractured into subliminal jet-streams of ambience whose minute being coalesces within various meditative drone-states. Both sides of Henge have the same weird attention-sucking immediacy despite being unassuming and “mellow.” Another brilliant addition to the ever-growing Isolated Now Waves catalog.

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Anju Sing – In Suffocation

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Knell – Reserve

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