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April 13th, 2012

New Canadiana :: The Ketamines – Spaced Out

The Ketamines - Spaced Out
From the teenage emergencies of Aaron Levin:
Taking their blown-out, wasted pop moves to a new level of blasted riff denial, the darlings of Lethbridge unleash another hyperbolic garage-psych monster within the Canadian ether. Spaced Out soars with wings of farfisa and splattered psychedelics, channeling enough Fred Cole and Ariel Pink to catalyze the ridiculous catch laying in concentrate within their reverberated debut. Finally, an album with enough pop-raunch to satisfy the rolling, sexual hills surrounding southern Alberta’s bleakest plateau. Grip++.

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The Ketamines – Teenage Rebellion Time

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The Ketamines – Skin Trade

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The Ketamines – Midnight Dawn

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October 3rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Ketamines – Line by Line 7″

From the lethal cocktail of Michael Deane:
Sugary sweet melodies and psych-punk explosions collide, creating a perfect distillation of Nobunny bubblepop and Wicked Awesomes-styled monotoned haunt-rock. You’re immediately drawn into a comforting K-hole, where you’ll ingest a lethal cocktail of melody and hooks that is 2011’s twee-punk single of the year, “Line by Line.” The deceptively sweet opener (Note: The lines they sing about aren’t lines of poetry) is just the start of a slippery slope. Hooks get buried, melodies get blurred and the atmosphere gets murkier as the 7” progresses, bringing a depth and range not normally seen on a debut. It’s time to let these Lethbridge abusers lead you through the Gateway. GRIP.

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Ketamines – Line by Line

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Ketamines – New Victims

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Ketamines – Dig

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March 1st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Fist City // Moby Dicks – Blow b/w All The Time

From the bad-daditude of Jesse Locke:
The Scotch Tapes (Cas)Singles Club launches like a wrist shot straight to the top shelf where grandma keeps the peanut butter. By now, regular readers of Weird Canada should be intimately familiar with the Fist City formula, and once again the razor-wire gtr-punks keep up their sister act with heart-racing panache. After an ear-piercing, amp-squealing intro, “Blow” dissolves into double-speed Daydream Nation sprawl, while the spoken-squawked vocals ring the alarm. Side B sees Southern Alberta brother band The Moby Dicks smudge and fudge through two minutes of B.T.F.O. bad-daditude, as frontman Joel Butler barks out commands over brain-buzzing riffs. Grip it and flip it and flip it again.

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Fist City – Blow

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Moby Dicks – All the Time

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February 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Fist City // Timecopz – Split 7″

From the post-storm sun of Michael Deane:
It’s like someone told both of these bands: “You only have five minutes to say everything you have planned for the next year,” and they nailed it into the ground. Fist City’s side has an amazing mix of precision and shambles, of dissonant guitar lines and totally uplifting sun-after-the-storm, muddy-voiced melodies. The trampling, mangled, spit-out warbling verses give way to trebly, simple guitar lines backing catchy-as-all-hell choruses. Timecopz keep pace with bratty, chunky, screamy garage-punk that stays away from all gimmick, giving nothing but two songs full of noisy, in-the-red energy. Group choruses and infectious verses mix punk’s past with punk’s future and give you punk rock for right now. MUST GRIP.

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Timecopz – Shit City

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Fist City – Iggy Pup

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December 10th, 2010

New Canadiana :: James Leroy – Distinction

James Leroy
Distinction
(Scotch Tapes)
Lethbridge, AB
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From the power pop distinction of Jesse Locke:
Since the dawn of the aughts, Lethbridge music mainstay Paul Lawton and songwriting partner JL Hankey have been cranking out infectious little pop tunes under a variety of aliases (James and The Giant, Coruscant, Light Years and James Leroy). The pitch-shifted vox will turn heads first, yet the duo’s tweaked backdrops include everything from slacker jangle to AM radio breeze, canned crowd sounds to Rapture-ous debauchery (when’s the last time you heard that comparison?). Distinction collects the cream of the crop before the pair’s latest project The Ketamines drops its debut LP on Dead Beat Records, plus 7-inches on HoZac, Southpaw and Odd Box.

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James Leroy – Wasting Our Time

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James Leroy – Celebration

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James Leroy – Nervous

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December 9th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Myelin Sheaths – Get On Your Nerves

Myelin Sheaths
Get On Your Nerves
(Southpaw Records)
Lethbridge, AB
::web/sounds::


From the nervous sheets of Aaron Levin:
The most realized piece of psy-fi punk shreddery from the camp that put Alberta on the map for fringe aficionados. Burning beyond saturated garage riffery, Get On Your Nerves cauterizes all hemorrhaging power-chord burnitude, thrusting a strychnine hybrid of freejacked harmonies and maximum guitar overdrive straight to the dome. Bask in the crushed pop panoramas bursting through membranes of a nihilist future. Glorious 12″ vinyl LP with a limited clear version. Pass the grippy on the left hand side.

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Myelin Sheaths – Half-Wit

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Myelin Sheaths – Chemistry Lessons

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December 7th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Fist City – Hunting You

Fist City
Hunting You
(Dead Beat Records)
Lethbridge, AB
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From the meth municipality of Aaron Levin:
The gnarly, driving pop sinusoids of Lethbridge’s Fist City have finally entombed themselves in one eternal polyvinyl groove. Their catch drips in the ecstatic distortion flowing through the Southern Albertan hotbed, but it’s Hunting You‘s torrid leads and dualic vocals that make them a beacon for all things adjective-punk. Well tuned heads will be plugged into their ardent pop sensibilities and otherworldly weirdness, levitating their grey matter to the next level of pop consciousness; a B-Side burner you’ll be playing in the shower, popping on a two-wheeler, and jamming down main street throwing fists and launching space rockets. Quintessential grippage from the small library of beautiful no-field Canadiana.

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Fist City – Debbie Get YR Boa

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Fist City – Thalido-my-mother Took the Pill

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July 9th, 2010

Review :: Fist City – Queen of the Slugs b/w Crime Spree

Fist City
Queen of the Slugs b/w Crime Spree
(Pop Echo Records)
Lethbridge, AB
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From the crime sprees of Aaron Levin:
Southern Alberta’s hilly wasteland continues to explode with Fist City’s anamorphosis from the pop spectrum. Their twin-shriek phenomenon bludgeons us with searing, distorted leads, rolling bass lines, and a bewildering catchiness that has become their harmonic core. Fist City’s debut single is a brilliant sortie from the disempowered rurality of Alberta, charging forward into instant hit and pop satisfaction. Limited to 99-copies and available to Wyrd Alberta patrons exclusively, the 7″ will luckily be rereleased owing to an epic pressing flaw on the b-side. Recommended grippage.

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Fist City – Queen of the Slugs

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August 25th, 2009

Review :: The Moby Dicks

The Moby Dicks - The Moby Dicks The Moby Dicks
The Moby Dicks
(Mammoth Cave)
Lethbridge, AB
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Another brilliance piece of post-existence garage-punk from Lethbridge, Alberta, released on the soon-to-be-legendary Mammoth Cave Recordings. label. The Moby Dicks’ debute CDR is liquor-store garage-punk-revival filtered through ashtrays and pissy stair-wells; it’s puzzling, adventurous and full of Paul’s weirdly flavored recording MSG. Who is Paul? On top of being the leading member of now-defunct Endangered Ape and producer for about-to-blow-up The Myelin Sheaths, Paul is the cold glue keeping Lethbridge a veritable force in Canada’s what-the-hell-is-this? landscape. Paul’s recording techniques are paramount in separating The Moby Dicks’ debut form derivative garage-punk. Through the Mammoth Cave studios the songs transcend their late-60s roots and firmly entrench themselves in the whirlwind of hell that is the modern Terminal Boredom palette. Buy the CDR before it’s extinct.

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The Moby Dicks – Always Be Around

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The Moby Dicks – Fuck Off Baby

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The Moby Dicks – Talk Money

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August 6th, 2009

Myelin.

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Myelin Sheaths
(Mammoth Cave)
Lethbridge, AB
::web/sounds::

The Myelin Sheaths were sold out of their CDR after devastating a small crowd during Calgary’s Sled Island music festival. And dammit, my ass is burnt! I never got one and now I want one! When they were ready to record, Martine and Cassandra, founders of Myelin Sheaths, approached Paul from Endangered Ape as the resident Lethbridge recording weirdo. Paul hastily joined the band and took a producing role. The result is a qualitative analysis in pulverizing sci-punk; imagine William Gibson trying to write a biology textbook with a busted Fender drenched in ink. It’s fun, it’s rad, it’s vaguely educational, and it sounds like absolute crud; fragmented distorto-thoughts oozing out of your nervous system in a ridiculous attempt to escape the cavernous spectral-noise that is Paul’s hallmark recording style. Myelin Sheaths will be a big deal whether you like it or not. Look out for an upcoming 7″ on Hozac Records. Lethbridge shreds. Paul shreds. Myelin Sheaths shred. Let’s shred with them.

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Myelin Sheaths – Do The Mental Twist

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Myelin Sheaths – What’s Yer Diagnosis? (Psychosis)

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