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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 17th, 2011

New Canadiana :: N.213 – FXGGXTRY

From the spastic anguish barrage of Jarrett Samson:
Nic Hughes is as close as Vancouver’s underground scene has to royalty, something even a cursory glance at the staggering number of releases on his Isolated Now Waves label lends undeniable credence to. Never content to rest on such laurels, Hughes continues to produce great art at a pace few could muster (let alone match), and his solo project N.213′s latest, FXGGXTRY, proves his merit yet again. While undeniable tapped from a similar vein as his work with Shearing Pinx, this cassette manages to deviate and define itself as a more personal and introspective work without all of that singer-songwriter bullshit that usually follows such descriptors. Soaked in anger (or anguish?), barrages of spastic, massive guitars slide sinew-tight over each other before slamming up against noisy rumbles of sound collage hum and restrained, unworldly instrumentals. To top it off, Hughes’ inimitable vocals continue to put reverb-fetishists everywhere to shame. There’s an ominous feeling to the whole record as if some strange current runs through its every connection, a basement tape concept album in denial. To put it simply? FXGGXTRY is the best N.213 release to date.

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N.213 – Forgiveness

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N.213 – Breather

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February 3rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: N.213 // Reflektionss – The Next Best Thing

From the glimmering clamor of Aaron Levin:
NMR found a bold pairing between the bristled pulses and maniacal low-end of N.213 and Reflektionss. Their combined dualic forces swerve between harrowing drum-machine hermetics and fist-fulls of gothic concoctions frothing with digital spume. While N.213 jacks your hybrid with scorching no limit dialogues, Reflektionss pipet their basemental minimalism straight through your nervous system. Both foster a millennial convolution of arresting fear and 21st century mellow, so grip fast before their divergent crests wash you into nihilism. [Pressing note: pictured above is the test-pressing gripped from the Isolated Now Waves merch table. The actual release differs significantly.]

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N.213 – 28 Years

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Reflektionss – Take Yr Movement Away

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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
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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

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July 21st, 2010

Music :: Mongst – Kamira

Mongst
Kamira
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 226))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the genital fusion of Aaron Levin:
Kamira sees Mongst traversing the dualic streams of Glassian multi-part ambience and melanic guitar exertion; both avenues percolating his soundscape with dialectical conviction. Let the hypnotic minimalia of “Or Does It Explode” take your mind through a 12 minute trip into ancient ambient pastures, climaxing with a heavy dose of tranquil string dronage. The whole passage seems serene when compared to “The Riverboard Caroline”‘s avant-occult shreddery, and thankfully the contradictions don’t stop there. A brilliant strip of experimentalia from one of Vancouver’s finest.

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Mongst – Or Does It Explode

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Mongst – The Riverboat Caroline

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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

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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
::web/sounds::

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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