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March 9th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Each Other – Taking Trips

Each Other - Taking Trips
The boys of Long have taken another extravagant excursion into progressive pop. Their lysergic sequencing of addictive time signatures reaches an all-time high on Taking Trips, as their heroin leads throw us deep into their opium sanctuary. While we dream along their subtle-island vibes, the slow churning fabric of our pop reality begins to fragment, buckling under weight of Each Other’s glorious clamour. Crucial grip.

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Each Other – Freak Heat

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Each Other – She Stole Second

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Each Other – Goosing Statues

February 27th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Police des Moeurs – Police des Moeurs EP

Police Des Moeurs
Police Des Moeurs may be Alphaville’s greatest export since Lemmy Caution and Anna Karina. The duo intuitively know when to let sequencers speak for themselves, when to chime in, and when to command their drum machines to play another remorseless fill. Best experienced while observing Brutalist architecture, a worn existential paperback in your pocket. [Note: Certain copies of the 7" may come packaged with a page from Georg Orwell's 1984.]

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Police des Moeurs – Il vient d’un pays qui n’existe plus

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Police des Moeurs – Ville souterraine

February 24th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Chevalier Avant Garde – Heterotopias

Chevalier Avant Garde - Heterotopias
First things first, indulge in some post-modern sociological complexities. But I guess all you really have to remember is that Chevalier Avant Garde deliver the utmost serious retro-futurist pop, edgy for reminding us we’re constantly nearing the advent of robot lust and digital mal de vivre. They’ve cloned themselves into a refined synthesis, like a fascinating concentrated soul pouring out of your speakers. No doubt, this would have definitely made the final cut had I made a best of 2011 list

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Chevalier Avant Garde – Axion

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Chevalier Avant Garde – Over The Fountain

February 21st, 2012

Video :: Paula – Lover Boy [Dir. Jasper Baydala]

Our hero Paula heads out into the neon sleaze of Montreal. Cigarettes are purchased and undershirts get danced in. Upbeat drum machine clatter, sky-scraping synth, and a final sheet metal guitar solo take us to dejected former Silly Kisser David Carriere slouching in an emergency room. Director Jasper Baydala channels the bittersweet vibe perfectly through VHS fuzz, freeze-frames, and fast cuts.

February 9th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Lantern – I Don’t Know b/w Out of Our Heads

Lantern - I Don’t Know b/w Out of Our Heads
Cheaper than a leather jacket but equally effective at scaring your parents, Lantern’s new single takes them to new levels of speaker-blowing oblivion. “I Don’t Know” resurfaces from this summer’s tape on Night People, jabbed with adrenaline by drummer Sophie White’s Maclise-via-hambone beat. But B-side “Out of Our Heads” is the true highlight—nearly five minutes of relentless bass-as-extra-tom-tom, high pitched smears of sneers, and a final solo of celestial murk. For Cuban heels only.

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Lantern – I Don’t Know

February 8th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Escapists – HPPD Island

Escapists - HDDP Island
Swaddling their inaugural cassette in a surgical glove cocoon, Montreal’s newest modular synth and electronics power duo scramble brains like Ramsay does eggs. The inspired mind-meld of Frank “Hobo” De Gallo and Jesse “Meat Parade” Osborne-Lanthier oozes from ear to ear with effervescent washes, high-pitched squeaks and interplanetary gabber in a post-space-rave chillout room. The totemic objects encased within offer a time capsule from the year 2046. O.R. They?

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Escapists – Ergoline Sky (excerpt)

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Escapists – The Lysergide Shores (excerpt)

February 7th, 2012

New Canadiana :: AIDS Wolf – Ma vie banale avant-garde

AIDS Wolf - Ma vie banale avant-garde
Recorded in Calvin Johnson’s Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, WA, Canada’s most progressively potent gang of art-damaged grumps have created what could be their masterwork. After years of touring Rollins style and unleashing countless slabs upon the mound, AIDS Wolf have pared it down to the bare wires pulsing and robbing us of the horizon. Chloe Lum’s vocals are louder than ever, yet processed in robotic jabs to the eardrums, playful, violent, while Alex Moskos floats and meanders through a valley of oozing moans, all on top of the unrelenting smash provided by Yannick Desranleau. Every time they get into the studio they take it out to the left field for another round of “how insane am I/how insane is the world”, barefoot and lost. Finding new meanings inside the sullen husks of human interaction, focused on the future and destroying the past relatives we had known. Repetition. Repeater. Realized. Where do we go from here?

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AIDS Wolf – Pop a Candy Drop

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AIDS Wolf – Despair Ritual

February 6th, 2012

New Canadiana :: P/DO P/DRO – Massage

P/DO P/DRO - Massage
Avec son évangile Casio punky et sa guitare-jouet au fuzz ping-pong, P/DO P/DRO célèbre la créativité encadrée de la tendre enfance dans une réinterprétation souillée de savoir-faire faussement puéril que les plus grands peuvent canaliser comme un souvenir d’enfant sauvage pour un premier album numérique dont les four plus grands succès potentiels ont été pressés sur cire. C’est de la post-danse sociale riche d’un crémage de ponctuation synthétique bip-boup-bip qui fait frétiller, un bouillon de poulet pour une bacchanale de demi-mesure, crooné sur la fine ligne du bon goût et de l’étiquette.

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P/DO P/DRO – Le Secret

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P/DO P/DRO – Jouir

February 2nd, 2012

New Canadiana :: Puke Eyes – Puke Eyes

Red Masstermind Choyce delivers a triple-gulp of pavement pizza with wildman drummer Edouard Laroque on this abdominal assault of improv-psych splatter. Whether tearing into chainsaw riffs or veering into a nomadic void, Satan’s van never stops a-rockin’. As a clincher, “Museum of Death” hands the megaphone to gonzo poet Richard Ritalin for a tale of ritual evil à la “The Gift.” Beurk!

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Puke Eyes – I Think It’s Human

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Puke Eyes – Museum of Death

January 31st, 2012

New Canadiana :: Various Artists – Visage Musique Vol. 1

Various Artists - Visage Musique Vol. 1
Wipe that icy sweat off your brow and vogue like a vampire. Visage Musique’s late 2011 salvo sends out a coldwave of shimmering shivers with minimal emotion and maximum satisfaction, spanning the label’s extended family, WC fave Femminielli and a fresh cast of freaks. Black light aerobics and arena anthems pump it up like Pavel Bure while the witching hour survivors get their kicks. G to the RIP.

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Police Des Moeurs – Monde fallacieux (Extended)

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Brusque Twins – What Else Is There To Say

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