August 30th, 2010
From the eternal folly of Aaron Levin:
These lo-bit atonal HFX-heavyweights return with another chaotic excursion into audactic nullity. Wailing saxophones pierce through the murky guitar shredding as gravitrons of distortion warp every sinusoidal tendency; it’s an ear-biting display of The Ether’s magnetic live show, no simple feat for a five piece using every noise-making machine known to humankind. Their deconstructed blues number (“I Need You”) is unsane. Another superb die-cut from the folks at Patente. MUSTGRIP.
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The Ether – I Need You
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The Ether – Hustling Myself
File under: aaron levin // free // halifax // lo-fi // patente // punk // weird punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: compact disc :: nova scotia | 1 Comment »
August 4th, 2010
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Flash Palace
Some Misinterpreted Sunsets
(Mayan Chorus)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::
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From the flashing teenage fantasies of Aaron Levin:
Brilliant genre-pollination from this out-of-left-field Vancouver quartet. Their highly visceral pressure waves ooze a strange hybridized pop-psych with flashes of electro digitalia and sampledelic cut-ups. The blotted magnetic threads of Flash Palace’s debut tape are filled with this phenomenal pilgrimage into pomo-pop principalia and has me excited beyond most hyperbolic means. A voyeuristic adventure into a genre-less future. GRIP÷0.
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Flash Palace – Slow Beams
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Flash Palace – Sasa
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Flash Palace – Seventy Lives
File under: aaron levin // electro // electronic // lo-fi // mayan chorus // pop // pop-psych // psych
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette | 1 Comment »
July 27th, 2010
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
File under: 90s // grunge // isolated now waves // james goddard // lo-fi // punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette :: nova scotia | 1 Comment »
July 19th, 2010
From the bloodied home of Aaron Levin:
A churning swamp of distortion oozes from Bloodhouse’s debut cassette. It pushes their thunderous pop monstrosity into new dimensions of intensity, molding the Haligonian pop-vocal-phenomenon into walls of spectral noise and sinusoidal chaos. Tracks like Eerie Power tear apart the murky folds of reverb, bearing witness to a brash group of teens spawning havoc within our audio organs. HEAVY.
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Bloodhouse – Eerie Power
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Bloodhouse – Grave Mind
File under: aaron levin // halifax // lo-fi // pop // rock // self released
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: nova scotia | 2 Comments »
July 9th, 2010
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
File under: 99 sevens // aaron levin // garage // lethbridge // lo-fi // mammoth cave recordings // paul lawton // pop // pop echo // punk
Categoria!! 7" :: New Canadiana :: alberta | 2 Comments »
July 8th, 2010
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Huckleberry Friends
2010 10″
(Nimbostratus)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::
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From the hidden burials of Aaron Levin:
Huckleberry Friends continue wayfaring through the mystic burial grounds of druidic psych. Drones of timbre, pulsing æther, and ceremonial groove permeate their latest 10″, pushing the coven of femme-pop conjuring into heights of lysergic divinity. The EP is delicately packaged in a textured black triple gatefold complete with ephemera, clear bronze vinyl, and a download. Listen at full stone.
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Huckleberry Friends – WWHBF
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Huckleberry Friends – Feasting Ceremony
File under: aaron levin // lo-fi // nimbostratus // pop // psych // weird // wiccan // witch
Categoria!! 10" :: New Canadiana :: ontario | 2 Comments »
June 22nd, 2010
From the there-is-no-describing-this-confusion of Paul Lawton & Aaron Levin:
Long overdue debut LP from Toronto-based sexual hyperbole that collects material recorded between 1983 and 2009. Tonetta’s recipe for success consists of wasted erotic lo-fi dripping in wet bass, fruity drum loops, and occasional 80′s guitar sleaze; backdrops for his variety show of graphic sexual acts, perverts, prostitutes, drug use, hedonism and occasional political rhetoric. Once a song is recorded, Tonetta dons a costume (g-string, Kabuki mask, demon makeup, etc), takes off most of his clothes, and dances. After the initial sexual overload, a gripping desire to break through the facade takes over. The songs are compelling enough to dive right in and the LP, removed from the visceral overload, allows a new entry-point into Tonetta’s garish existence. As a compilation of material spanning 25 years, the album is one highlight after another, from the soaring 80’s cheese of “Drugs Drugs Drugs” and “I Want to Marry a Prostitute” (which could be a viagrafied Jimmy Buffett song), to the Bowie-esque album standout “I’m Still a Slave.” In the tradition of musical oddities like Jandek, J.T. IV, or more recently Blank Dogs, Tonetta is a mystery best left unsolved. Weird Canada grants this our highest recommendation.
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Tonetta – Still A Slave
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Tonetta – Drugs Drugs Drugs
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Tonetta – John And Yoko
File under: 80s // aaron levin // black tent press // costumes // lo-fi // paul lawton // sex // sleaze // vintage // wasted // weird // wtf // youtube
Categoria!! 12" :: New Canadiana :: ontario | 10 Comments »
June 11th, 2010
From the (often very) bad ideas of Aaron Levin:
The inaugural single in the Pop Echo / Weird Canada 99 Sevens 7″ series saw a departure from Sans AIDS’ previous one-boy-and-a-couple-of-kick-pedals 90s lonertude. Peter’s a man now (dawg), and he’s got a mustachiod rhythm man amassing Peter’s brilliance into pop canon; gnarled, bassy guitar with trademarked™ lead complexity, erratic pacing, and incredible catchiness forming like Voltron to create the quintessential pop marvel on two sides. SICC+++
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Sans AIDS – Got Ideas
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Sans AIDS – Flashlights
File under: 90s // 99 sevens // aaron levin // indie // lo-fi // pop // pop echo
Categoria!! 7" :: New Canadiana :: alberta | 2 Comments »
June 4th, 2010
From the Albertan twangs of Aaron Levin:
Blown-out shit-punk with some strange Albertan twang that is violently addictive. What it lacks in fidelity is made up with sheer attitude as the vocalist tears through the tape’s magnetic digitalia, shrieking within Alberta’s desolate underground. A dense layer of red-line pop imagination surrounds Jetfighter, while it’s sonic liquidation wrenches ear drums and blows speakers.
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Bikeland – Paul Vickers
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Bikeland – Folk and Cherry
File under: aaron levin // lo-fi // pop // punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: alberta :: cassette | No Comments »
