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New Canadiana :: Vampires – Vampires

Vampires - Vampires

From the mapped-out Manitoba of Taylor Burgess:

Deep into the driving dizzy riffage of Vampires, you may need to step outside their acid lounge for a smoke break, or a breath of unscuzzed air. That is, if you can elbow your way past your fellow deadhead dregs who are screaming their post-punk, post-pubescent, post-party paranoia to the tune of “Cops are calling you from their homes!” But the Dionysus of their lone discus has done found you again — duped you into such fits you could eagerly dig up your grave. But at the end of the day (and the dawn of the next), Vampires have burned their hearts to their sleeves, taken their trips to the sand, and spread their ashes to the coast. One grand gesture after the next.

Du Manitoba cartographié de Taylor Burgess:
(Traduit par Nicolas Coutlée)

Pénétré par les puissants riffs étourdissants de Vampires, peut-être éprouverez-vous le besoin de quitter leur lounge lysergique le temps d’une pause cigarette ou d’une bouffée d’air dégrisante. Bien sûr, seulement si vous parvenez à vous frayer un chemin parmi vos têtes brûlées d’épaves de camarades qui beuglent leur paranoïa post-punk, post-pubère et post-party en entonnant en choeur « Cops are calling you from their homes! » Mais le Dionysos qui habite leur disque solitaire a retrouvé votre trace à nouveau, provoquant chez vous de telles convulsions que vous pourriez bien creuser avidement votre propre tombe. Mais à la fin de la journée (et à l’aube le lendemain), les Vampires se sont embrasés à cœur ouvert, transportés jusqu’à la plage, pour finalement répandre leurs cendres sur la côte. Un geste grandiose n’attend pas l’autre.

Vampires – Zipper

Vampires – Trus

New Canadiana :: Various Artists – Bloodstains Across the Prairies

Various Artists - Bloodstains Across the Prairies

From the prairie cryptography of Taylor Burgess:

Mammoth Cave gives us another great ’stain of the nation — the fourth entry of their barely-registers-before-it’s-gone, minute-long song-a-thon. This time, Saskatoonians and Winnipeggers each take a side of the 7”, drawing a line on either side of a border called ‘garage rock’. Members of the keystone province crank their amps to 17 with absolutely no nonsense, but the Toontowners are taking mad trips left and right, getting bleary-eyed and psyched-out with post-hardcore hangovers. Neither side is taking prisoners. Think you’re tough? Listen to Atomic Don’s diamond dog doo-wop or Auld Beak’s top-of-the-lung laments without crying. Think you’re solid? Listen to This Hisses’ chilling post-punk gallop or Trees’ auditory existential crisis without trippin’. But the majority of these tunes, like the Haunted Souls’ hyper-speed wooly bully or Plague Rats Throughout History’s warped pogo-proto-punk, will leave your rug cut into confetti. WC mainstays Feral Children and Microdot have also included cuts of their usual shimmering/pummeling weirdo ephemera. Srsly, grippppppppit.

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Stephen Cooley – Gets Us Nowhere

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Atomic Don and the Black Sunrise – Evelyn

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Haunted Souls – Hairy Prairie

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Plague Rats – Poison Noise Saintdom

New Canadiana :: J Riley Hill – J Riley Hill

J Riley Hill - J Riley Hill (cover)
From the stubborn sock puppet of Taylor Burgess:
After releasing eight albums in eight weeks, J Riley Hill took a full year to record this whacked-out studio pop — heaping on synthesizers, banjos and trombones and wrapping the full-length up with a guitar solo finale worthy of sending you soaring over rainbows. Hill’s deft wordplay jumps around from losing the game to the impossibility of you experiencing his dreams to tearing off your skin and jumping in the fire cuz it feels so good. Serious WTF stuff that feels great bouncing around your intestines.

(rec. traxx: 4, 8)

New Canadiana :: Scab Smoker – Scab Smoker

Scab Smoker - Scab Smoker
From the slurred manipulations of Taylor Burgess:
A power trio which sways from down-tempo doom to British Heavy Metal, and their drummer’s tape manipulations are the glue that holds it all together? If the tectonic shifts don’t diminish you with a blink, nervous hums will creep up through Crabskull’s eerie non-sequiturs and form pustules on any clean mind — infectious stoner metal in its newest mutation, perversion, persuasion, enticing all to bang head, bang head, bang head.

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Scab Smoker – Butcher of Daemons

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Scab Smoker – Call of the First Aethry

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

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

Mary Jane Stole My Girl
  • Mary Jane Stole My Girl
  • Mary Jane Stole My Girl
  • (Self Released)
  • Winnipeg, MB
  • ::web/sounds::
From the Friday soundtrack of Taylor Burgess:
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

New Canadiana :: Cannon Bros – Firecracker/Cloudglow

Cannon Bros - Firecracker/Cloudglow
From the cloudbursting cannon of Taylor Burgess:
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

New Canadiana :: Smoki Tygr – Cybrtygr

Smoki Tygr - Cybrtygr
From the cyber stripes of Taylor Burgess:
Smoki Tygr (a.k.a. Smoky Tiger) was sent on a mission to follow the gospel of our holy prophets and save the rest of Manitoba, the prairies, and possibly North America. Meanwhile, he’s fighting with copyright laws for the good and entertainment of the common person, leading an ornery crowd in a sing-a-long and making them roll around in laughter, incapacitated. Finally, after a long bout of crime fighting, at some drinking establishment or art space, he sings our Canadiana lessons. Yes, ‘tis nothing but a peaceful day here in the greater Manitoba area, thanks to Smoki Tygr and his robotic companion.

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Smoki Tygr – 300 pds

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Smoki Tygr – Terry Fax

New Canadiana :: Philia – Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces

Philia - Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
  • Philia
  • Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
  • (Self Released)
  • Winnipeg, MB
  • ::web/sounds::
From the atonal arsenal of Taylor Burgess:
Not all of us can take the trip that is the Assiniboine Music Armada, canoeing from Brandon to Winnipeg with psych-folk band Twin to communities through wilderness, but some can certainly admire the spirit, for those of us who believe in spirits anyhow. Phantom embodied, Greg Hanec’s tribute to the tour (performed and recorded at Twin’s return show to Winnipeg) plays like an NFB nature doc — expansive, quiet stretches, sounds of water splashing, and birds chirping — accompanied by Philia’s concentrated atonal arsenal. Elsewhere, he’s making music out of whatever he can get his hands on: cello samples, the open back of a piano, and his own field recordings of a bus door opening and closing. What’s at play is what usually isn’t played, and the subdued floats on down, up, and by.

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Philia – Arma Tribute 1

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Philia – Cellogroove

New Canadiana :: White Dog Family Band – Escape the Mystery II

From the munchkin motorik of Taylor Burgess:
Chris Jaax, the patriarch of Winnipeg’s noise scene, is also the patriarch of the White Dog Family Band. More motorik than mere mortals, his eight-year-old munchkin Magnus meanly rocks the mic, mocking music as you know it. You’ll be thrust headfirst into hypnotheraphy through this cassette, the final White Dog release and one of his easiest on the ears. Obey the mountainous composition and its ganja man “de-mix” version on the flip to escape all mysterious matter into hyper-awareness of the meaningful mendacity of your senses. White Dog, what is your secret?

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White Dog Family Band – Escape The Mystery II Pt. 1

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White Dog Family Band – Escape The Mystery II (Version) Pt. 1


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