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March 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bad Vibrations // Bloodhouse – Bad Blood

Du mauvais sang et de la maison des vibrations de Benoit Poirier:
D’un côté, Bad Vibrations délaisse quelque peu le power-pop-punk tordu qui caractérisait son premier maxi pour s’exposer la flanelle sur un sentier cagneux de fuzz mélancolique, de tambours itératifs et de voix éthérées et dit « allo » au grunge c88-90 d’un air à la fois triste et fâché, parce que le grunge c’est compliqué. De l’autre, Bloodhouse se magne le punk, amincit son mur du son pour laisser passer plus de fun dans son psych-garage et incite sérieusement au tapage de pied jusqu’à ce que ça saigne, entre un John Dwyer d’avant et un de maintenant. Halifax l’a, l’affaire.

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Bloodhouse – Endless Vacation

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Bad Vibrations – Waking Up

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March 2nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bruised Knees – Badwater & Holy See’s Horror

From the tainted caps of Aaron Levin:
Yet another face-melting insertion within the Scotch Tapes and Young Guv lathe series. Two slabs of soylent plastic were necessary to capture the wikked vibrations emerging from Toronto’s Bruised Knees. Eerie, synthetic mellowtones are sandwiched between cultic clamor and shattering shimmer, spinning psychedelic sinusoids around our sonic horizon. The Huckleberry influence runs deep within the wincing metal and triplic drummery; thud, thud, thud, thud, burn burn burn burn. What else lay dorment in Guv’s lair? Grip before the patina groweth.

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Bruised Knees – Holy See’s Horror

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Bruised Knees – Badwater

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December 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Construction & Destruction – Mutatis Mutandis

Construction & Destruction
Mutatis Mutandis
(The Quarantine)
Port Greville, NS
::web/sounds::


From the mutant mutandis of James Goddard:
Rural art-rockers radiating traces from a secluded homestead hanging over the Atlantic Ocean. Fresh like the crunch of first steps in burnt snow. Mutatis Mutandis is Construction & Destruction’s fourth bass-led caravan of hyper-text lyrics, dense guitar riffs, detached drumming and Kohakian meditations. It takes a moment to reach the place they’re coming from. Venture forth and see for yourself.

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Construction & Destruction – The Oracle

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Construction & Destruction – Bear

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September 24th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Grown-Ups – Not Friends

Grown-Ups
Not Friends
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the grunge-core of Jesse Locke:
Funded by the sales of a surprise success goof, Calgary’s hurly-burly Grown-Ups self-released this four-song 7” ripper. For those paying attention, it’s business as usual: fast, catchy songs (this time they’re calling it ‘grunge core’), angry dad vocals and wise-ass lyrics with topics ranging from pyramid schemes to insomnia to real talk between grown-ass men (plus nods to Neil Young and Dr. Steve Brule!). The only thing likely to be more of a no-brainer is the Dude Ranch cover set they’ve announced for Halloween. 500 copies, red or clear vinyl.

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Grown-Ups – We’re Not Friends

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Grown-Ups – The Mess

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September 15th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Stalwart Sons – Burn Daylights Like Torches

Stalwart Sons
Burn Daylights Like Torches
(Revolution Winter)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the burnt prairedom of Aaron Levin:
Strange currents of prairie hard-rock percolate this hooking jaunt through hardcore’s progressive pastures. Don’t let them convince you otherwise: Burn Daylights Like Torches is a phenomenal rock record fit for turntables of all dimensions. They maintain their uncanny can-rock hookery through bails of crushing guitar riffs and agropop vocals, readying your inner 90s-teen for summer streams of melodic bass and jazz drummery. It’s the perfect answer to Halifax and Montreal’s wave of mathrock tompoppery and the only reverberations in this context imbued with Alberta’s pastoral identity. GRIPORBEGRIPPED.

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Stalwart Sons – In Dust

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Stalwart Sons – Canadian Railroad Epitaph

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August 17th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Jom Comyn – Balcony

Jom Comyn
Balcony
(Champion City Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the comyn-spiced balconies of James Goddard:
This EP from Edmonton’s Jom Comyn (sometimes Jim Cumming) speaks to the concerns of young adults in the 21st Century – I mean actual young adults, not the browsers of Gordon Korman – unemployment, cigarettes, sloppy romances, late-nights, and (of course) almost condemned balconies. The guitars carry the tunes lethargically; apathetic tones, sketchy feedback, and non-committal fuzz over dusty, stilted drumming. Jom’s vocals shine through the nest like a retired lounge singer; an odd, weathered voice spouting the words of a quarter-life savant. “You don’t know what you are doing until years after it’s through.” On Sunday morning, in a hungover haze, it all sounds like it might be the truth.

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Jom Comyn – New Raincoat

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Jom Comyn – Roomie

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August 5th, 2010

SONDE :: Outdoor Miners – Disgust

Outdoor Miners
Disgust
(Pop Echo Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the disgusted mind of Aaron Levin:
The latest diamond-tip offering from Edmonton’s autarchic trio is a convergence of the varied streams binding their sound. Their wilding drummer grips the mic for “Bent Brain,” a searing foray into classic punk riffery (complete with anthemic, pit-grinding chorus), while the scalding mellowness of bass-face Sagar pierces through “Friends With Money.” The whole spectrum is collected in “Disgust,” which just happens to contain an over-the-top classique rock solo. Another brilliant travelogue into the adjective-rock cosmos. ?GRIP(to infinity).

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Outdoor Miners – Bent Brain

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Outdoor Miners – Friends With Money

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July 19th, 2010

Music :: Bloodhouse – Bloodhouse

Bloodhouse
Bloodhouse
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


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

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March 3rd, 2010

Review :: Bad Vibrations – Bad Vibrations

Bad Vibrations
Bad Vibrations
(Brotherhood Cassettes)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the not-so-bad vibrations of James Goddard:
Sometimes I imagine a future where everyone has forgotten what a guitar actually sounds like; Children brought up on a steady diet of French pop and Swedish 8-bit. Eventually, current trends like lo-fi would become ailments listed in the DSM VII with prescriptions like: 2 hours of Kumbaya orchestrated by battery-operated MicroKorgs (twice daily, with food). Things would be bad. Luckily former Dog Day drummer KC Spidle has strapped on a six string and stepped to the foreground to ensure such a future will never happen. Bad Vibrations play guitar music. They play the kind of three piece power-pop that begs for adjectives like dark or gloomy; and they play it well. Eschewing any kind of overt studio trickery, the members of Bad Vibrations (KC, Evan and Meg) have put together a crisp sounding record that subtly recalls that classic 90s Halifax sound. Nothing could be further from an all-electro dystopia.
[Levin's Note: James forgot the positive side of an all-electro dystopia: Gino Soccio all day 'ere day.]

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Bad Vibrations – We’re Dead

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Bad Vibrations – Think About Life

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January 22nd, 2010

Review :: Various Artists – The Compilation of Hope!!

Various Artists
The Compilation of Hope!!
(Bart Records)
Asterisk, Canada
::web/sounds::


From the compiled danglings of Jesse Locke:
The Comp of Hope starts off with a serious wallop: the 1-2-3 whirligig of Vancouver’s Damages, Nova Scotia’s Minivan Halen (snagging the prize for Best New Band Name) and Toronto’s Place Hands, three groups with distinct yet equally imposing approaches to the post- / proto- / avant- / eff-it-let’s-just-get-rowdy hardcore continuum. Bart Records founder Kevin Stebner seems to favour the tuff gnarl stuff, with seven of the comp’s 10 acts setting their phasers to beatdown. From the spazzy attack of Abbotsford’s GSTS! to the rastafried “turbo jamz” of Edmonton’s Slates, Missisauga’s Whiskey Priest and unfuckwithable label faves Gift Eaters closing it off, this cassette could provide the perfect aggro soundtrack for any hesher’s backyard mini-ramp sesh. The softer side of weird Canadiana is also represented with the Strokes-meet-a-blown-out-Casio addictiveness of Swwords (the former project of this very site’s founder), Montreal’s math-pop dangereux duo Special Noise and a live jam from the inimitable dd/mm/yyyy. Another top-notch tape release from Bart, with awesome foldout liner art (front & back) from Calgary’s Heather Kai Smith.
[Levin's Note: This has the most links of any review on Weird Canada. Which means you get to virtually travel across Canada, all thanks to Bart Records. Benjoy!]

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Special Noise – Fitness

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Minivan Halen – Epic

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SLATES – blooloend

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swwords – The Hit

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