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New Canadiana :: Video Nasties – Amore e Rabbia

Video Nasties - Amore e Rabbia
From the rabbia management of Jesse Locke:
Subliminal dub vibes strut through the Yamaha netherzone of Rob Feulner’s latest blitz. Though not as overtly blunted as the territory patrolled by the White Dog Family Band these cosmic currents still jolt where the average synthesist is content to merely shimmer. Portuguese label A Giant Fern has housed a limited edition in screenprinted caskets, offering a fittingly eye-pleasing package for Wyrd MTL’s resident projectionist, coming soon to a screen near you.

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Video Nasties – Amore: (1) Weak History Text (2) Where Were We? (3) Their Last Days As Children (4) …Those Who See May Become Blind.

New Canadiana :: Water St. Projects – Bad Canada

Water St Projects - Bad Canada
From the plimp strut of Pam Haasen:
Big Sturge’s aquarian guitar heeds a cumulonimbus warning. Low rumbling thunder resides in the near future and if I were a betting man, I’d put twenty across the board on a storm. Near is the rumble, with strings drawn out to bode a “brewing”. Get off your hog and walk it to the cabin with the light in the window. Refuge comes with Side B, for you’ve discovered it was a light behind those clouds. From that mountain above you where the fog surrounds the peak comes a holler of “help!” The loop behind it all disintegrates, the guitar begins plimping and you’ve found an old baseball mitt and bottle of Scotch while looking for a pack of waterproof matches.

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Water St. Projects – Welcome Home, Dangerous Town

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Water St. Projects – Honechetu Sept 1876

New Canadiana :: Crabe – ???

Crabe - ???
From the crustaceous courtesies of Aaron Levin:
Crabe have unleashed a totally blasted and inexplicable artifact from the Montreal underground. Forging undefined links between Archimedean power pop and wasted Ramones covers, their unreadably-titled CDR gives the briefest glimpse into basemental prog conjured by the dialectically adventurous. Quintessentially bizarre. We’re not even sure if this is grippable.

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Crabe – Alvin Pex

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Crabe – I Want You Around (Ramones Cover)

New Canadiana :: Smoky Tiger – Dragontiger

Smoky Tiger - Dragontiger
From the jukebox broughaha of Taylor Burgess:
The Cyber Prophet is back, reppin’ the Chinese zodiac—playing ubiquitous anthems from two (supposedly) suicidal songwriters who you (and classic rock radio) love. His weird cacophony of organ, electric beats, Jim Morrison recordings, and on-board SFX all swish around lyrics you’ve been mumbling since you were in utero, strange, and all one in the sun. After releasing a profoundly fractal-shaped affair, what else could the Year of the Dragon have in store for our Tiger?! West coast: watch out.

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Smoky Tiger – Peeps r Strange

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Smoky Tiger – All Apologies

Video :: The Haiduks – Use Up My Time [dir. Moduli TV]

From the time wastidity of Jesse Locke:
Like a third generation DGC Rarities boot melting on Kevin Shields’ dashboard, the debut transmission from Montreal’s Haiduks is the sound of a popsicle turned to sweet, sweet sugar juice. Switching planes from the ambient bliss-out of his primary project, Élément Kuuda, Christian Richer kicks his amp into overdrive with this unstoppably awesome shoegaze pop fist-pumper. The accompanying visuals from Frank “Hobo Cult” Ouellette flick through sun-bleached memories from a found-footage family vacation, serving up a pitch-perfect song/video combo. I want to jump in a lake.

Review :: Grimes – Geidi Primes

Grimes
Geidi Primes
(Arbutus Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the Kimono-draped androgyny of Aaron Levin:
Geidi Primes is a landmark album of modern Canadian fringe, an assemblage of space-station pop memorabilia teleported from a time-static nether-zone beyond the scope of our earthly understanding. I’ve been waiting months for this, posting anxious pleas to Grimes after hearing the sinuous, harrowing bass-line on Rosa. With the curiously packaged cassette in my fiending grip, the orbiting swaths of synthetic warmth and echoing drum-machines have caused exciting astral projections outside my usual mental musicalia. Geidi Primes takes off from Rosa’s minimal bass-lines and launches straight into a strange hybrid of Björk, The Cure, Micachu, and other avant seamstresses, leaving a footprint in every decade and thankfully landing in ours. Chord progressions and samples are pulled from any source imaginable and the aggregation results in a Kate Bushian trail of decadence. It seems pointless and restrictive attempting to describe its brilliance, so I’ll stop with this: Geidi Primes is a flagship of hyperbolic dimensions. Get on board.

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Grimes – Rosa

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Grimes – Venus In Fleurs

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Grimes – Zoal, Face Dancer

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Grimes – Sardaukar Levenbrech


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