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June 2nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Man Made Hill – Future Florists

Man Made Hill
Future Florists
(Inyrdisk)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::

From the hermetic delusion of Aaron Levin:

On the brink of a sexual explosion, Man Made Hill’s warbled army of synthetic bone tweak the subconscious with unmitigated groove. Only Toronto could provoke such a paramount of reductive funk bursting with subterrestrial bass and xenomorphic rhythm, paving the way for incumbent beings of radiant grind. Brought to you in finely compacted form by Inyrdisk. Ultragrip.

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Man Made Hill – Sage

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Man Made Hill – Tape Vacation

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Man Made Hill – Maximum Defeat

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May 16th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Cocobeurre – Landing

Cocobeurre
Landing
(FelinoBytes)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

D’une fin de journée passée de Benoit Poirier:

Cocobeurre c’est le projet solo de la claviériste Coco Khan (la sœur de King Khan) qui a auparavant sué ce qu’elle savait faire dans les bands garage les Del-Gators et les Milky Ways. Nouvelle maman qui a appris à prendre son temps, elle s’entoure ici de synthés vintage et de collaborateurs confortables (King Khan et Choyce, entre autres) pour flotter sur ou se baigner dans une électro-pop faite de berceuses abstraites et de comptines ludiques qui évoquent des carrés de sable flous ou le souvenir d’une plage. D’une inquiétude apaisante rappelant Passe-Partout ou comme si Brian Eno avait destiné Another Green World aux enfants, ces 10 chansonnettes maison vous font glisser dans la félicité de la fin d’une chaude journée d’été.

From the end of a past day of Benoit Poirier:
Cocobeurre is the solo project of keyboard player (and King Khan’s sister) Coco Khan, who previously sweated what she knew in garage acts The Del-Gators and The Milky Ways. Now a mom who learned to take it easy, Coco is surrounded with vintage synths and comfy collabs (King Khan and Choyce, among others) in order to float on or go swim. These abstract electro-pop lullabies and playful nursery rhymes evoke blurry sandboxes or the memory of a beach. Stuffed with soothing worry reminiscent of Quebec’s legendary kids show Passe-Partout or an imagined past where Brian Eno had aimed Another Green World at children, these 10 home-fi songs will make you slip into the felicity of a hot summer day’s end.

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Cocobeurre – Les Bulles

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Cocobeurre – Is This How

File under: benoit poirier // coco khan // cocobeurre // electro-pop // felino bytes // francophone // lo-fi // montreal // music review
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May 13th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Dirty Beaches – Badlands

Dirty Beaches
Badlands
(Zoo Music)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the 16mm mileage of Gabriel Jasmin:

Badlands is quite a venture. From swaying croons to strenuous screams, we continue to follow Alex Zhang Hungtai’s solo foray into personal fiction. More mature than previous outings, this LP contains his best songs yet, and reveals a more aggressive side to his traditional film noir chic. It’s a scratchy and loopy ride, revisiting the past while staying firmly grounded in a singular breezy headspace of conceptual avant-garde. I’m so glad everyone seems to be enthused on just how good Dirty Beaches’ sounds are right now.

Du kilométrage 16mm de Gabriel Jasmin:
Badlands est une expédition. Par la romance chancelante susurrée et les cris astreignants, on continue de suivre Alex Zhang Hungtai jusqu’au creux de sa fiction personnelle. Plus mature que sur ses parutions passées, on le trouve à son meilleur sur ce premier LP, en plus de lui découvrir une agressivité nouvelle à même son habituel chic de film noir. Égratigné et cyclique, le chemin revisite le passé pour le juxtaposer habilement avec une vision conceptuelle singulière et avant-gardiste. Récent favori des critiques, je ne peux penser à un artiste qui le mérite davantage.

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Dirty Beaches – A Hundred Highways

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Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best

File under: croon // dirty beaches // film noir // gabriel jasmin // lo-fi // music review // rock and roll // vancouver // zoo music
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May 3rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Lab Coast – Pictures on the Wall

Lab Coast
Pictures on the Wall
(Eggy Records)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::

From the morning snooze of Gabriel Jasmin:

For us Canadians, spring comes with a peculiar feeling of delight, and this is precisely the kind of soundtrack you need when waking up from winter hibernation. Lively yet relaxed, Pictures on the Wall is jam-packed with hooks, sunny vocal harmonies and smooth bedroom-fi fuzz. With 12 short songs packed into 19 minutes of tape, Lab Coast show excellent focus and economy in crafting fine laid-back pop. It’s springtime, life is good again, so stay in bed a little longer and then go ride your bike or something.

Du snooze matinal de Gabriel Jasmin:
Nous, habitants des grands froids, savons qu’un bonheur tout particulier accompagne l’arrivée du printemps, et cet album est précisément le genre dont on a besoin au moment de sortir de notre torpeur d’hibernation hivernale. Énergique mais posé, Pictures on the Wall est une bonne dose de hooks, d’harmonies vocales ensoleillées et de la distortion digne des enregistrements de sous-sol. Avec 12 chansons en 19 minutes, l’excellente pop décontractée de Lab Coast s’y trouve concentrée et économe. On l’aime parce que c’est le printemps, parce que la vie est belle et parce qu’après une sieste prolongée, on ira faire une balade à vélo.

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Lab Coast – Radio

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Lab Coast – On My Jeans

File under: bedroom // calgary // eggy records // gabriel jasmin // lab coast // lo-fi // music review // pop
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March 23rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Lab Coast // Extra Happy Ghost!!! – Lab Coast / Extra Happy Ghost!!!

Lab Coast // Extra Happy Ghost!!!
Lab Coast / Extra Happy Ghost!!!
(Saved by Vinyl)
Calgary, AB // Calgary, AB
::web/sounds:: // ::web/sounds::

From the 90s brain damage of Joni Sadler:

There’s always been a certain charm to bedroom recordings. Both Lab Coast and Extra Happy Ghost!!! wear their affinity for this homespun aesthetic on their sleeves, and it’s this shared dedication to lo-fi home recording that makes them an ideal pair for this split from Calgary’s Saved by Vinyl. Lab Coast tears a page straight out of the Guided by Voices handbook with a pair of sundrenched slacker-pop tunes, while Extra Happy Ghost!!! slows things on the flipside with a couple of decidedly more introspective tracks. But even when the songs begin to chill out, the fuzz and jangle remains strong in the mix, reminding us that this is the sound coming from the basements and bedrooms of our own land. Robert Pollard would be proud, and you know what? So should we.

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Lab Coast – For Now

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Extra Happy Ghost!!! – Mechanical 111

File under: calgary // extra happy ghost!!! // guided by voices // joni sadler // lab coast // lo-fi // pop // robert pollard // saved by vinyl
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March 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bulldog Skin – Blue EP

Bulldog Skin
Blue EP
(Self Released)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::

From the steady doggin’ it of Aaron Levin:

Searing glam-pop encrusted in the gritty ooze of Toronto’s cold-hearted concrete labyrinth. Mired in trebbly four-track cassette moves, the bleary power-pop magyk ensconced inside Blue punctures every aural orifice with impressive jabs of catch. It’s a timeless summer crib for slackers seeking refuge from the hurly burly whirling within the centre of the world. Hand-painted covers for the extra grip factor.

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Bulldog Skin – Blonde Girl

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Bulldog Skin – Let Me Down

File under: aaron levin // bulldog skin // glam // lo-fi // pop // toronto
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January 24th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Rebecca’s Room – The Burned CD

Rebecca’s Room
The Burned CD
(Self Released)
New Waterford, NS
::web/sounds::

From the shambling slackertude Michael Deane:

New Waterford’s bedroom-punk heeds no boundaries. Fuzzed-out mono-pop, warped keyboard layers and oscillating noise behind shambling slackertude all play together, seamlessly blending the last 20 years of college rock, lo-fi jams and punk aggression. Rebecca’s Room keep it interesting and surprising, and this CD’s eight songs don’t even seem to scratch the surface of the band’s anthemic, monotonically drawled out bangers. “Cherry” embodies youthful exuberance and wasted nights of ingested meaning, while “All That You Say” has Dylan-esque blasé and hooks for days. These upper-downer jams mix with more contemplative fare to bring a full serving of the frantic but bored, laid back psych-acoustic numbers and blown-out noise pop.

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Rebecca’s Room – Cherry

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Rebecca’s Room – All That You Say

File under: dylan // lo-fi // michael deane // monotonic jams // new waterford // pop // punk // rebecca's room
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January 21st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Freak Heat Waves // Funs – Demos Tape

Freak Heat Waves // Funs
Demos Tape
(Fan Club Music Club)
Victoria, BC // Victoria, BC
:: web/sounds :: // :: web/sounds ::

From the freak heat laze of Jesse Locke:

Like a root beer float melting on your flip flops, Freak Heat Waves — the latest project from Medicine Hat’s finest — bring the faded beach bum jams with this odds ‘n’ sods collection. Scrappy, slight and seemingly recorded with minimal stress, it’s the particular style of mellow that comes part and parcel with Victoria and truly sounds best on cassette. On the flip, Thomas Di Ninno’s solo project Funs offers its own homespun charm via rambling guitar solos, grooving horns and a lazy David Berman drawl. Steady coastin’…

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Freak Heat Waves – Time

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Funs – Date Night

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Freak Heat Waves – Suspicion Power (live at Broken City)

File under: broken city // fan club music club // freak heat waves // funs // jesse locke // lo-fi // medicine hat // mount royal // pop // punk // victoria
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November 8th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Ruddy Guy – Best of Microcassette Archives

Ruddy Guy
Best of Microcassette Archives
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From teenage surgery of Aaron Levin:
Blown-, hallowed-, adjective’d-out basement moves from this Vancouver-via-Calgary mystery. Immediately addictive juvenile pop frequencies with an imagination rarely seen in the genre emanate from the compilation of 4-track demos recorded between 2008-2009. The dreamy, fragile soundescapes will drift through your mind, leaving traces of Ruddy Guy’s pop agility in every neural transmitters. I’m not really sure how you can grip this, but you should try.

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Ruddy Guy – it feels good

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Ruddy Guy – cheerup

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Ruddy Guy – bluenote

File under: aaron levin // folk // lo-fi // pop // ruddy guy // self released // ssw
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October 20th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Félix de l’Étoile – Le Mystérieux Prisme en Lit et la Saga d’Ator Bacham

Félix de l’Étoile
Le Mystérieux Prisme en Lit et la Saga d’Ator Bacham
(Jeunesse Cosmique)
Montreal, PQ
::web/sounds::

Du pèlerinage psychédélique de Gabriel Jasmin:
Le Mystérieux Prisme en Lit et la Saga d’Ator Bacham est le premier album du chansonnier solo Félix de l’Étoile, sur lequel il nous partage ses visions hallucinogènes et sa plume franchement surréaliste. C’est un vrai dédale chancelant de styles musicaux, passant d’un délire garage-indien-psychédélique au groove progressif interplanétaire. C’est sa signature dense, chaotique et lo-fi qui permet de maintenir la cohésion de l’album. De son studio de chambre à coucher, Félix de l’Étoile traverse les horizons d’espaces psychédéliques et angulaires. Suivre Ator Bacham dans sa saga, c’est un voyage qui vaut la peine d’être écouté.

From the psychedelic pilgrimage of Gabriel Jasmin:
Le Mystérieux Prisme en Lit et la Saga d’Ator Bacham is singer-songwriter Félix de l’Étoile’s first album, filled with hallucinatory visions and all-out surrealist prose. He staggers loosely through a wide variety of musical genres, from a psychedelic-Indian-garage freak-out jam to interplanetary progressive groove. His signature lo-fi, controlled-chaos, heavily layered production somehow manages to retain the album’s coherence. From inside his bedroom studio, Félix de l’Étoile travels to angular horizons of psychedelic wonderlands. Join Ator Bacham in his saga. It’s a trip well worth taking.

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Félix de l’Étoile – Brasse ton Corps

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Félix de l’Étoile – Le Côté Ombragé de la Plume Icaroïde

File under: electronic // experimental // francophone // gabriel jasmin // Jeunesse Cosmique // lo-fi // pop // weird
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New Canadiana :: Man Made Hill – Future Florists

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