August 30th, 2010
From the eternal folly of Aaron Levin:
These lo-bit atonal HFX-heavyweights return with another chaotic excursion into audactic nullity. Wailing saxophones pierce through the murky guitar shredding as gravitrons of distortion warp every sinusoidal tendency; it’s an ear-biting display of The Ether’s magnetic live show, no simple feat for a five piece using every noise-making machine known to humankind. Their deconstructed blues number (“I Need You”) is unsane. Another superb die-cut from the folks at Patente. MUSTGRIP.
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The Ether – I Need You
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The Ether – Hustling Myself
File under: aaron levin // free // halifax // lo-fi // patente // punk // weird punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: compact disc :: nova scotia | 1 Comment »
June 14th, 2010
From the swampy high-life of Aaron Levin:
Between the legs of a warped B-52s / Cramps hybranoid exists the maligned and twisted vibrations of Montreal’s Futensil. Their atonal jungle of mystic wyrdabilly shivers beneath Emily’s shrieks while Psychic Handshake CIO Graeme Langdon chants his way through a distant spell of psychedelic conjure. The overall emotional damage is an addicting aural experience for any futurotic voodoo voyeur.
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Futensil – AWOL a Go Go
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Futensil – Black Mold
File under: aaron levin // campaign for infinity // punk // rockabilly // weird punk
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May 26th, 2010
From the electric voices of Aaron Levin:
Bibelots of this calibre are rarely offered; an insane compilation capturing the audible wasteland of free-pop/punk/form creativity fermenting within Nova Scotian borders; a continuous psychic narrative seizing the spirits of Canada’s most concentrated musical hive. Matt Samways has raised his golden conch, spreading his Electric Voice and summoning the fried minds of east Islanders everywhere. An exciting documentation of the current wave of fringe musics in Canada’s East and something we will marvel upon in our disparate future. In order of appearance: Veitam Vets, Omon Ra, Dog Day, Cold Warps, Bad Vibrations, Stolen Minks, Meat Curtains, The Ether, PIG, Mess Folk, Fuck Montreal, Duzheknew, Vacuum, Throbbing Organ, Milksnake, D’EON, We Need Secrets, Shinobi, Compostainer, Torso, DA/AD, Corner Organs off, Cheif Thundercloud, Microorgans, Omma Cobba and the Eastside Marijuana Band (!!), Dead Dog, The Friendly Dimension, Scribbler, and Fascism.
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Electric Voices Compilation – Side A
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Electric Voices Compilation – Side B
File under: aaron levin // compilation // electric voice // experimental // garage // lo-fi // noise // PIG // pop // punk // weird punk
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April 28th, 2010
From the digital pyramidi of Aaron Levin:
Midnite Cobras is a static departure from Tonstartssbandht’s choralic maximalism. They’ve emerged on Psychic Handshake with a pounding matrix of digimax psychedelia. Tremelodic falsettos soar above driving bass riffs and digital morphisms; a chaotic assemblage of divergent forces pushing diamond-tips to their aural limits. Synthesizers, harmonies, leads, distortion, and tape-warble abound, the brotherly duo file another bewildering disadjectified triumvirate of wave-forms. Do not even question the grip.
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Tonstartssbandht – I’m a Welsh Souper
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Tonstartssbandht – Electric Dragon Sword
File under: aaron levin // psychic handshake // punk // weird punk
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April 22nd, 2010
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Crystal Swells
Crystal Mountain Girls
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::
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From the crystallic necklace of Aaron Levin:
Tilt the CDR at the right angle and a spasm of light will dance around your retina. An audible effect of the same calibre occurs after immediate Crustal Mountain Girls jammin’. Crystal Swell’s aptly named CDR debut is a prismatic vortex of adjective-pop; a brilliant chromatic collage of splattered pop-punk. Their name had me thinking proto new age piano noddling, so don’t make the same mistake. This ain’t no Stephen Halpern joint.
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Crystal Swells – Trees
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Crystal Swells – Burn it Electric
File under: aaron levin // pop // punk // weird punk
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February 12th, 2010
From the laboratory disaster of Jesse Locke:
Not since the glory days of Thomas Dolby has the world been gifted with such catchy songs about science. Following their debut 7” released via the HoZac Records Hookup Klub, Leth/Death/Methbridge’s Myelin Sheaths are back with another Bunsen-burnt four-song platter, this time stamped with the imprint of Bachelor Records from Austria. AUSTRIA! Big ups, guys. A-side opener “Stackticon” is a scrappy, foaming-at-the-mouth cheerleader chant rocker, clocking in at 1:40 and blown the eff out just like Paul Lawton loves it. “SPF70” is a moody instrumental with tasteful guitar wrangling that almost sounds surf-y in places, which, now that I think about it, the suntan lotion song title is assuredly alluding to. On the flip, the head-bashing repetition of “Laboratory Disaster” and garagey girl groupisms of “Fun With Science” will be familiar to anyone who’s caught these cats live or copped their O.G. self-released CD. For all your fuzzy, skuzzy weirdo rock needs, the Mammoth Cave keeps on churning out the goods.
[Levin's Note: Austria! Wild!!]
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Myelin Sheaths – Stackticon
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Myelin Sheaths – Fun w/ Science
File under: bachelor records // garage // punk // science // weird punk
Categoria!! 7" :: New Canadiana :: alberta | 2 Comments »
January 26th, 2010
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
File under: biker punk // divorce records // punk // punk punk // synth punk // weird punk
Categoria!! 12" :: New Canadiana :: quebec | 1 Comment »
December 22nd, 2009
From the burnt-cadillac remains of Aaron Levin:
Gilded Flowers, The Pink Noise’s first on Montreal’s Campaign for Infinity, is their most realized cabaret of drum-machine bustitude (and probably why the cassette is already on its third printing). Subjecting yourself to every burnt guitar solo and car-wrecked bass-line will give you the succinct impression that The Pink Noise’s front-man slammed a lot of doors, hung out in arcades, and owned a leather jacket at the age of 10. Thus, Gilded Flowers becomes an 80s vision of the future: computer screens as gateways into incomprehensible lo-bit realities, nuclear punk the specter of pop music, alleyways brimming with undiscovered societies, and every kid smoking cigarettes and selling ATM-hacking chips; it’s the slow degeneration of our welfare state into psychedelic-fiction. Freejack punk for a new generation of post-modern wastoids. And it’s all yours for $6.99.
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The Pink Noise – Shy Guy Beach
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The Pink Noise – Toad
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The Pink Noise – Cop Cars
File under: campaign for infinity // lo-fi // weird punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: quebec | 3 Comments »
December 11th, 2009
From the vaguely fluorescent Aaron Levin:
File-under: cassettes blaring from Master Blaster‘s tape-deck while executing a ’64 impala drive-by. So get your leather chaps, crawl on the hood of your mom’s minivan and run drive. Mess Folk has grown into a fierce teenager fighting against Canada’s industrial wasteland (read: Sydney) and unleashing their terrifying Salmagundi of adjective-garbage in the process. It’s scary, chaotic, brutal, and extremely poppy. Every song an anthem for derelict dogs, chimney sweepers, knitting factory women, P.O.Ws, Trotskyists, and any victim of industrial pillaging. This is Mess Folk is the ugly side of capitalism; the underbelly of mutant-punk; the smegmatic 9mm pocket-protecting vomit gun. It’s nine songs of unfuckwittable pain and anguish; an anthemic veneration for the depressed and lonely; the product of a forgotten city, time, and existence. On the East coast everything is missing. But we have this tape. Twelve songs. Every one of them a winner. I told my friend Jazzowita the other day: “the new Mess Folk cassette is good.” He agreed.
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Mess Folk- You’re Too Pretty (I Wanna Kill You)
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Mess Folk- I Shit Blood
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Mess Folk- Modern Man
File under: amazing // garage // lo-fi // loner // punk // weird punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: nova scotia | 3 Comments »
November 27th, 2009
From the stressed-graduate-student existence of Joni Sadler:
Eschewing the cheeky sloppiness that often accompanies the ‘weird punk‘ aesthetic, Vancouver’s Nü Sensae lets loose with a visceral attack of noisy jams that are over much too quick for their own good. The eight songs crammed onto this one-sided 12″ are short bursts of frantic drumming, dirty fuzzed-out bass riffs, and Andrea Luki?’s snarled vocals, all packaged together into a wholly ear-blistering listen. When they turn up the rage and Luki? unleashes that scream of hers, she sounds like the single most badass frontwoman of any band, ever. This is punk rock that isn’t afraid to be abrasive; the duo takes pride in the rough edges and lo-fi grit of their songs, and rightfully so. If only more bands had as much guts as these kids do and the sense of recklessness that actually lets them pull it all off without sounding forced. This record leaves little doubt that Nü Sensae means business.
[Levin's Note: Every time I listen to this 12" I feel like I'm getting punched in the face. Very limited pressing. GRIP OR REGRET.]
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Nü Sensae – Raven Tussle
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Nü Sensae – Peter Tripp
File under: 90s // inw // no-wave // weird punk
Categoria!! 12" :: New Canadiana :: british columbia | 3 Comments »
