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February 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Fist City // Timecopz – Split 7″

From the post-storm sun of Michael Deane:
It’s like someone told both of these bands: “You only have five minutes to say everything you have planned for the next year,” and they nailed it into the ground. Fist City’s side has an amazing mix of precision and shambles, of dissonant guitar lines and totally uplifting sun-after-the-storm, muddy-voiced melodies. The trampling, mangled, spit-out warbling verses give way to trebly, simple guitar lines backing catchy-as-all-hell choruses. Timecopz keep pace with bratty, chunky, screamy garage-punk that stays away from all gimmick, giving nothing but two songs full of noisy, in-the-red energy. Group choruses and infectious verses mix punk’s past with punk’s future and give you punk rock for right now. MUST GRIP.

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Timecopz – Shit City

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Fist City – Iggy Pup

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February 10th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Crystal Swells – Goethe Head Soup

  • Crystal Swells
  • Goethe Head Soup
  • (Self Released)
  • Vancouver, BC
  • ::web/sounds::
From the fiendish beach party of Jarrett Samson:
What do you do when you live in the ‘burbs and don’t want to waste your life smoking outside the local Mac’s? Toss on your baseball cap, turn on the Salvation Army microphones and start “Wakin’ up the Neighbours”. Crystal Swells’ ‘Ridge rock stands as a testament to the power of suburban detachment, throwing Blink 182 and Spacemen 3 through a coffee grinder and coming up with just the right mix of snotty attitude kept on track by massive backbeats and gut-searing guitar leads. Exuding a youthful Teenage Shutdown LP energy, Goethe Head Soup is stacked with syrupy vocal lines hiding under feedback peaks and red-lined valleys, with occasional Lally-isms and the almost obligatory no-chord garage-jam of a title track. “Waco, Wasilla, Waikiki” takes all of this, compresses it, and proceeds to grind and spatter teen lust all over the fiendish beach party it emanates from. Essential Vancouver.

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Crystal Swells – Mellow Californian

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Crystal Swells – Waco, Wasilla, Waikiki

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December 9th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Myelin Sheaths – Get On Your Nerves

Myelin Sheaths
Get On Your Nerves
(Southpaw Records)
Lethbridge, AB
::web/sounds::


From the nervous sheets of Aaron Levin:
The most realized piece of psy-fi punk shreddery from the camp that put Alberta on the map for fringe aficionados. Burning beyond saturated garage riffery, Get On Your Nerves cauterizes all hemorrhaging power-chord burnitude, thrusting a strychnine hybrid of freejacked harmonies and maximum guitar overdrive straight to the dome. Bask in the crushed pop panoramas bursting through membranes of a nihilist future. Glorious 12″ vinyl LP with a limited clear version. Pass the grippy on the left hand side.

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Myelin Sheaths – Half-Wit

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Myelin Sheaths – Chemistry Lessons

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December 7th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Fist City – Hunting You

Fist City
Hunting You
(Dead Beat Records)
Lethbridge, AB
::web/sounds::


From the meth municipality of Aaron Levin:
The gnarly, driving pop sinusoids of Lethbridge’s Fist City have finally entombed themselves in one eternal polyvinyl groove. Their catch drips in the ecstatic distortion flowing through the Southern Albertan hotbed, but it’s Hunting You‘s torrid leads and dualic vocals that make them a beacon for all things adjective-punk. Well tuned heads will be plugged into their ardent pop sensibilities and otherworldly weirdness, levitating their grey matter to the next level of pop consciousness; a B-Side burner you’ll be playing in the shower, popping on a two-wheeler, and jamming down main street throwing fists and launching space rockets. Quintessential grippage from the small library of beautiful no-field Canadiana.

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Fist City – Debbie Get YR Boa

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Fist City – Thalido-my-mother Took the Pill

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August 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: The Ether – Folly

The Ether
Folly
(Patente)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


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

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June 14th, 2010

Review :: Futensil – Futensil

Futensil
Futensil
(Campaign For Infinity)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


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

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May 26th, 2010

Review :: Various Artists – Electric Voice Compilation

Various Artists
Electric Voice Compilation
(Electric Voice)
Truro, NS
::web/sounds::


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

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April 28th, 2010

Review :: Tonstartssbandht – Midnite Cobras 7″

Tonstartssbandht
Midnite Cobras 7″
(Psychic Handshake)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


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

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April 22nd, 2010

Review :: Crystal Swells – Crystal Mountain Girls

Crystal Swells
Crystal Mountain Girls
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


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

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February 12th, 2010

Review :: Myelin Sheaths – Stackticon 7″

Myelin Sheaths
Stackticon 7″
(Bachelor Records)
Lethbridge, AB
::web/sounds::


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

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