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New Canadiana :: Shearing Pinx – Night Danger

admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:30:21 +0000

Shearing Pinx
Night Danger
(Divorce // Isolated Now Waves)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the evening perils of Aaron Levin:

As a relic from the triumvirate evenings of dual guitar destruction, Night Danger contains the last recordings Shearing Pinx conjured within their triplicate state. Gripping the mic for the first time, Erin Ward obliterates all previous associations and takes “Sufferer” to a new level of avant-gothery. They further circumvent every convention with “Play Nice”, assailing a burnt blues jam into thirteen minutes of distorted twilight and chromatic space. Weaving within the trio’s high-level riffery and abject tonal assault, Night Danger uniquely steals this very special space within Canada’s creative cosmos. Posthaste grippage.

Shearing Pinx -Sufferer
Shearing Pinx – Play Nice
Shearing Pinx – Trip Gamma

New Canadiana :: Various Artists – Bloodstains Across British Columbia

admin — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:30:10 +0000

Various Artists
Bloodstains Across British Columbia
(Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the park-side rippery of Aaron Levin:

In a show of ridiculous viscosity, Mammoth Cave have focused massive gravity waves on the festering Vancouver fringe-punk milieu, condensing their sinusoids into ten bursts of minute-long mayhem. It’s the second in their Bloodstains series of Provincially-minded polaroids capturing this psychotic wave of ADD. Bands include: Nü Sensae, Role Mach, White Lung, Shearing Pinx, AHNA, Shipyards, Needles//Pins, B-Lines, Manic Attracts, Indian Wars, Young Mums, Timecopz, and Student/Teacher. Shred.

Nü Sensae – Tea Swamp Park
Shearing Pinx – Golden Spruce
Needles//Pins – My Politics
Role Mach – Sun Yat Sen

New Canadiana :: Shearing Pinx – Void White

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:51 +0000

Shearing Pinx
Void White
(Isolated Now Waves (INW #225))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the steady doggin’ it of Aaron Levin:

Wrapped in the searing red-line of low-end distortion, the dualic Pinx are entombed for the first time on polyvinyl. Even as a duo, the cavernous cacophony of their sinusoids are preserved; null waves of guitar shreddery percolate every trough and groove while a pounding machine gun fires upon skin-covered cylinders into adjective-oblivion. “Dired-Out” captures their corse ritual with precise dignity, offering two minutes of harsh improv before descending into a swinging western narrative with droning vocals and pulsating guitar rhythms, ushering our frayed minds into a static groove. They. Just. Won’t. Stop. ~~VOID~~ GRIP.

Shearing Pinx – Magnolia’s Tomb
Shearing Pinx – Dried-Out

New Canadiana :: N.213 – FXGGXTRY

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:00:22 +0000

N.213
FXGGXTRY
(Isolated Now Waves (INW #213))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the spastic anguish barrage of Jarrett Samson:

Nic Hughes is as close as Vancouver’s underground scene has to royalty, something even a cursory glance at the staggering number of releases on his Isolated Now Waves label lends undeniable credence to. Never content to rest on such laurels, Hughes continues to produce great art at a pace few could muster (let alone match), and his solo project N.213′s latest, FXGGXTRY, proves his merit yet again. While undeniable tapped from a similar vein as his work with Shearing Pinx, this cassette manages to deviate and define itself as a more personal and introspective work without all of that singer-songwriter bullshit that usually follows such descriptors. Soaked in anger (or anguish?), barrages of spastic, massive guitars slide sinew-tight over each other before slamming up against noisy rumbles of sound collage hum and restrained, unworldly instrumentals. To top it off, Hughes’ inimitable vocals continue to put reverb-fetishists everywhere to shame. There’s an ominous feeling to the whole record as if some strange current runs through its every connection, a basement tape concept album in denial. To put it simply? FXGGXTRY is the best N.213 release to date.

N.213 – Forgiveness
N.213 – Breather

New Canadiana :: N.213 // Reflektionss – The Next Best Thing

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:00:02 +0000

No. 213 // Reflektionss
The Next Best Thing
(Needs More R.A.M.)
Vancouver, BC // Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds:: // ::web/sounds::

From the glimmering clamor of Aaron Levin:

NMR found a bold pairing between the bristled pulses and maniacal low-end of N.213 and Reflektionss. Their combined dualic forces swerve between harrowing drum-machine hermetics and fist-fulls of gothic concoctions frothing with digital spume. While N.213 jacks your hybrid with scorching no limit dialogues, Reflektionss pipet their basemental minimalism straight through your nervous system. Both foster a millennial convolution of arresting fear and 21st century mellow, so grip fast before their divergent crests wash you into nihilism. [Pressing note: pictured above is the test-pressing gripped from the Isolated Now Waves merch table. The actual release differs significantly.]

N.213 – 28 Years
Reflektionss – Take Yr Movement Away

New Canadiana :: Shearing Pinx – Live Thunder

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:00:09 +0000

Shearing Pinx
Live Thunder
(Bruised Tongue)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the living thunder of Joni Sadler:
After last year’s killer Weaponry LP, Shearing Pinx one-up themselves with this live recording from a gig in Thunder Bay. Anyone who’s been lucky enough to witness these Vancouverites tear up a basement on one of their cross-country ventures knows that their live show is a blistering, noisy affair; this tape is a testament to the sheer distorted force that is Shearing Pinx in their element. Choice cuts from Weaponry take on a whole new sense of urgency when they’re drenched in this much grit and fuzz. Get your hands on the tape or better yet – catch the band next time they hit your town and watch this shit go down in real life.
Shearing Pinx – Live Thunder Side A
Shearing Pinx – Live Thunder Side B

Review :: Pompoir – Exploding Time

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:40:46 +0000

Pompoir
Exploding Time
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 211))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

From the burnt locker of Paul Lawton:
At one point in the second half of Exploding in Time, Nic Hughes (Pompoir’s lead singer and leading member of Shearing Pinx) repeats “Do you feel this?” and to this I say: Yes! I am absolutely feeling this. Pompoir’s grunge has been filtered through an accentuated Vancouver-alienation, giving the songs on Exploding Time a feeling unstuck in time and place while still capturing the sounds of this relativistic-event in Vancouver’s scene. In fact, after the first few listens I had pangs of jealousy that I don’t currently live in Vancouver to hear these bands on any given weekend. I’ll go out on a limb and say, of all the records that have come out of the Vancouver scene in the last five years (and lets face it, there have been a fuck-load of records… SHPX alone have over ten thousand releases!) Pompoir’s Exploding Time lands firmly in the “essential” category. Comes in fantastic silkscreened B-Side and album-covers. The vinyl is limited to 300 copies.
[Levin's Note: The photo used in this review is the rare, test-pressing vagina-cover variant (#15/20). The actual album art is quite similar. This record slays.]
Pompoir – Going Nowhere
Pompoir – Krush

Promotions :: WYRD FEST

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:36:03 +0000

Yes, Edmonton finally got its first underground music festival. It’s starting out small, with just 16 bands in one evening across two-stages, but I’m sure Wyrd Fest will become the revenue generating, gold-tank driving, investment masterpiece of Obey Convention, Sled Island, and Pop Montreal in no time!

In the meantime, see the full details here: WYRD FEST

Review :: Shearing Pinx – Weaponry

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:50:10 +0000

Shearing Pinx
Weaponry
(Divorce Records)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

The past three years have seen Shearing Pinx focus their creative blasts from harsh noise-punk to decimating experimentalism, tying together streams of sans-wave, noise, 90s-whatever-rock, and experimental every/any/something. Weaponry, Shearing Pinx’s first of two slated albums on Halifax’s Divorce Records, is by far their most meditative release and leaps into the unchartered netherlands of post-ritual druid-wave; ruminating vocals pierce through our cosmetic musical barriers and channel sinusoidal rhythms embedded within searing pleas of release (I’m really trying to convey a feeling I’ve had while listening to this record for the past four days straight and it’s hard). Fourier would be proud as the album converges; inspiring, leading, and transcending national boundaries in an effort to present the world with one the best adjective-punk records of 2009. My highest recommendation.
Shearing Pinx – Battery Born
Shearing Pinx – Selfish Acts