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March 5th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Dog Day – Deformer

Dog Day - Deformer
Adding salience, excitement and nuance to pop is like having a couple-based band that isn’t nauseating; it’s a tough thing to do, and if you ever need some tips on how to do it, look no further than Dog Day. On Deformer, interesting melodies are always on the cusp of sweetness, but they never go full-on, instead they take the infectious side of college rock and marry it to interesting textures and unexpected directions, then propel it with earnest energy. Not that you need to feel guilty about listening to pop music, but this has enough substance, roughness and ingenuity that you don’t have to justify it to anyone.

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Dog Day – Scratches

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Dog Day – Part Girl

March 1st, 2012

New Canadiana :: Elsa – (1)

Elsa - (1)
Between the blanketed 90s vibez lurks a definitive mellow eschewed by these Toronto mysteries. Layered guitars glide along powdery tracks paved by staccato bass and infinite drum machinery, making it too easy to whirl endlessly within their chorus of liquid vox. Quite frankly, the dub see has never been softer.

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Elsa – In Two

February 29th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Mary Jane Stole My Girl – Mary Jane Stole My Girl

Mary Jane Stole My Girl
What’s the matter, cuz? Bf/gf gone due to drugs? Well, MJSMJ’s here to give you auditory hugs, in the form of earnest 4-track fuzz. When you’re down and when you’re blue, this lo-fi harmony bliss would be your blesséd tissue. Or let your hair down, shuffle off your mortal frozen mind, and rock out with your junk out (Of control, but still in your shorts—despite best efforts of your unholy cohorts). Unlike those jerks, MJSMJ genuinely has your emotional liberation at heart — from now until that Dylan Thomas-referencing light departs.

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Mary Jane Stole My Girl – The Last Days of the Revolution

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Mary Jane Stole My Girl – Dylan Thomas

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 17th, 2012

New Canadiana :: F Hood – Gloomy Labyrinth

F Hood - Gloomy Labyrinth
This is a diary entry from my cousin’s recollection of her first acid trip. I think it applies here:
Crying will do no good. I am on the brink of everything. Tears well up and overwhelming joy tingles through my body like a hacky sack teeming with ants and funny bones. Moving my fingers is the most graceful thing in the world and a stream underneath IT ALL sends a wake that my brain can wind surf on. I’m laughing now like I’ve been hypnotized and my memory is in shock. I wish my hair was a little longer, though.

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F Hood – Dream Crush

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F Hood – Weekly Feel Up

February 14th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Cannon Bros – Firecracker/Cloudglow

Cannon Bros - Firecracker/Cloudglow
This album’s ambiguous and visceral title pops like some insta-nostalgic mixture of The Zit Remedy, a nearly forgotten Eric’s Trip video and your overwrought LiveJournal entries from high school (which, upon second glance, are much more heartfelt and less embarrassing than you remember). Alannah W. and Cole W. have been making these one-, two-, and three-chorders for a few years now, apparently writing songs tallying into the hundreds, but have pared the laundry list down to 12 for this release. Switching between cymbals, skins and strings, they take turns singing about soft-shoeing through their lives and dealing with, y’know, the shitty stuff, but glossing it over. It all sounds peachy keen, albeit sometimes frantic.

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Cannon Bros – Take

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Cannon Bros – Out of Here

February 10th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Bad Vibrations – Black Train

Bad Vibrations - Black Train
From the bowels of Haligonian earth comes, at last, a full-length offering of ruminations and rumble-punk from these three ramblers. Instant hits like “My Way” cut like a knife through an overall atmosphere of groovy murk, while “Muddy Waters” takes you to the rippling bong-water depths of classic grunge. Black Train hearkens back to moments of Moncton miasma while conjuring up an atmosphere of heavy, bleary bliss and magic all its own. My favorite album of 2011 can now become yours. Take a ride on this long strange trip.

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Bad Vibrations – My Way

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Bad Vibrations – Muddy Waters

January 24th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Boyhood – Boyhood EP

Boyhood - Boyhood EP
Layers of distorted flux from the nether-zone of Ottawa’s poly-pop underground ooze within Boyhood’s unassuming mellow burner. These direct-to-disc weirdos sleaze back into an alternate 90s wu-mansion brimming with teen age riots and sour times. Drizzle these noggin’ nodders over fists riffling for the grip.

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Boyhood – Where I’m Going

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Boyhood – Maintaining My Uncool

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Boyhood – Heat

December 16th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Slim Twig – There’s a Secret To Your Pleasure b/w Pastiche

Slim Twig - There's A Secret To Your Pleasure b/w Pastiche
Ditching the saddleback for a deep-dive into sun-soaked desert jammery, Slim’s wasted wycked warble embodies a new, singular harmony. He’s been re-envisioned within a blizzard of smoked-out synthetics and organ-swung arpeggio; a centrifuge of lysergic balladry and kinetic insanity. Timeless burners for the possessed mind. Conjured via Calico Corp., Slim’s exotic new imprint of “unique articles, starkly designed.”

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Slim Twig – There’s a Secret To Your Pleasure

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Slim Twig – Pastiche

December 8th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Each Other – Taking Trips

This one’s a total “no duh.” The latest subsidiary of the Long, Long, Long hit factory sheds a few layers of skronk while firing jangular hooks down the assembly line. Space echoes shimmer in an ocean of detached emotion while the tag-team harmonies sound positively fab. Drifting from the Maritimes to Montreal, our heroes have picked up a ringer to man the traps and cast this brilliant kahuna into the wild. A+++.

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Each Other – Looking Lapsed

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Each Other – Odd Body of Water

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