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February 16th, 2012

New Canadiana :: The Pink Noise – White Buildings

From the soylent husks of Pierre Richardson:
Minimal snaps and snips of the crash and burn generation are captured in this dimension, as songs heard in the underground dance clubs of Orwell’s 1984. We feel the bleak disgust of Mark Sauner’s mind, but he refuses to step it back. This is as classy as he’ll get, back alley hustler, smoke screen. On “Garden Times”, you know he’s trying to show you the way, but you don’t get it. And you never will—this is his nightmare. Broken and torn in two, needing an escape that isn’t possible. The end of the world already happened, and this is the soundtrack.

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The Pink Noise – Flit

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The Pink Noise – Garden Times

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January 17th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Lantern // The Ether – Lantern // The Ether

Lantern and The Ether Split Cassette Cover
From the cutting-edge theoretics of Gabriel Jasmin:
Lantern’s burning proto-punk and wah-wah workouts provide a much needed headbang session to strengthen those aging neck tendons. Their cover of this trashcan anthem further proves the cutting-edge theory that silverface fuzz blows away synth-banjo, any day. Meanwhile, The Ether’s destructo-wave ripples into black holes, a dense mass constantly on the verge of implosion. Here and there, a sparse guitar lead escapes the confines, a split-second before the void pulls you back head first into its crushing fury. Must grip!

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The Ether – Permanent State of Grace

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Lantern – America is my Zoo

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February 10th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Crystal Swells – Goethe Head Soup

  • Crystal Swells
  • Goethe Head Soup
  • (Self Released)
  • Vancouver, BC
  • ::web/sounds::
From the fiendish beach party of Jarrett Samson:
What do you do when you live in the ‘burbs and don’t want to waste your life smoking outside the local Mac’s? Toss on your baseball cap, turn on the Salvation Army microphones and start “Wakin’ up the Neighbours”. Crystal Swells’ ‘Ridge rock stands as a testament to the power of suburban detachment, throwing Blink 182 and Spacemen 3 through a coffee grinder and coming up with just the right mix of snotty attitude kept on track by massive backbeats and gut-searing guitar leads. Exuding a youthful Teenage Shutdown LP energy, Goethe Head Soup is stacked with syrupy vocal lines hiding under feedback peaks and red-lined valleys, with occasional Lally-isms and the almost obligatory no-chord garage-jam of a title track. “Waco, Wasilla, Waikiki” takes all of this, compresses it, and proceeds to grind and spatter teen lust all over the fiendish beach party it emanates from. Essential Vancouver.

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Crystal Swells – Mellow Californian

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Crystal Swells – Waco, Wasilla, Waikiki

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January 26th, 2010

Review :: Grand Trine – Sunglasses EP

Grand Trine
Sunglasses
(Divorce Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the wish-I-had-a-tough-guy-leather-jacket stylings of Aaron Levin:
Monochromatic Youth, the vanguard of Grand Trine’s Bruised Tongue debut, captured their synthetic sans-wave pedigree at the cusp of their existence, posing the question: where now? Defying all expectations, Grand Trine returned with a barrage of brilliant psychedelic biker-punk transplanted from their phantasmagoric Montreal freak-clinic. Some wastoid time-warp seizure has them sounding like Marty McFly opening for the MC5; face-melting genre-collages, bursting celluloid solos, and decimating saxophone freak-outs; all of it wrapped in layers of frayed leather, busted zippers, and skitched sunglasses. Translation: Sunglasses is not for the faint of heart, mind, spirit, or stomach. All orifices will succumb to their unwholesome mutant hard-rock and I suggest you send all litigations directly to Divorce Records c/o Weird Canada legal services (but make sure to grip the 12″ vinyl (limited to 600 copies) as evidence of their crime). Now, if you don’t mind, I have a large mess near my stereo system to attend to.

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Grand Trine – I Am a Magnet

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