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April 4th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Each Other – Traces to Nowhere b/w Sit Still

Each Other - Traces to Nowhere b/w Sit Still
From the encapsulated amber of Aaron Levin and Jesse Locke:
Moments pass; Each Other persists. The Nova Scotian wunderkinds have traversed twisted trails to arrive at these amber-encased oscillations, cramming a Rundgren-esque treasure trove of hooks into two new insta-classics. Paradigmatic pop moves that transcend an already-flawless discography.

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Each Other – Traces to Nowhere

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Each Other – Sit Still

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December 8th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Each Other – Taking Trips

From the odd future of Jesse Locke:
This one’s a total “no duh.” The latest subsidiary of the Long, Long, Long hit factory sheds a few layers of skronk while firing jangular hooks down the assembly line. Space echoes shimmer in an ocean of detached emotion while the tag-team harmonies sound positively fab. Drifting from the Maritimes to Montreal, our heroes have picked up a ringer to man the traps and cast this brilliant kahuna into the wild. A+++.

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Each Other – Looking Lapsed

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Each Other – Odd Body of Water

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January 5th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bird World – No Wonder

Bird World
No Wonder
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the wondrous forms of Aaron Levin:
A dreamy, psychedelic gauze wraps Bird World’s debut into a crunching bundle of 90s excursions. The soaring vocal hooks and burning guitars flutter around strange pop-psych flirtations, cultivating a bewildering anti-genre of catchiness. Sinusoids of this calibre originate from only one source: Halifax. Bonus points for being Long, Long, Long-related. Spectacular cover art, so grip with the quickness.

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Bird World – Swamp

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Bird World – Dreamed

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May 18th, 2010

Review :: Long, Long, Long – Long, Long, Long

Long, Long, Long
Long, Long, Long
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the loins, loins, loins of Aaron Levin:
From the ashes of York Redoubt‘s blitzkrieg through Canada’s art-pop continuum, Long, Long, Long have emerged a deliciously sauteed phoenix. More ambitious, weird, angular, and, dare I say, funkier (maybe?) than York Redoubt, Long, Long, Long is a wild continuation of the brilliant stream of pop cognizance festering in Canada’s mathematical east. Long, Long, Long is a marvel of price-per-hook insanity and is brimming with narrative, noise, and every pop sensation known to humankind. I suggest you grip. NOW. A+++(infinity).

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Long, Long, Long – Judy Chicago

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Long, Long, Long – Joseph Just Walked By

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Long, Long, Long – Drugstore (3am)

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October 15th, 2009

Review :: York Redoubt – York Redoubt

York Redoubt - York Redoubt York Redoubt
York Redoubt
(Hot Money Records)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


Halifax is on an advanced level of pop-wizardry. For a city with less than 400,000 people, they put the rest of North American to shame with the shear volume of crafted sounds. And they all have their own Halifaxian aura to them; seemingly channelled through distinct avenues, returning home from remote adventures with presents of pop’s future. York Redoubt has proven themselves a worthy flag-bearer of Halifax’s bubbling underground. Their first cassette showed a brief glimpse into a future-now, and with their self-titled debut out on Hot Money Records (limited to 100 vinyl copies – screen-printed with personalized photograph (cop that!)), they’ve finally actualized into the math-pop behemoth we’ve been waiting for. Weaving complicated threads of stubborn-catchiness between time-signatures that make so-much-nonsense and vocal harmonies buried within angular distortion, it’s difficult to turn your attention away from the album and it’ll be no-time before you’ve listened to the entire thing six or seven times. It’s ridiculous music to write about because it’s so incredibly layered, complex, and easy. Which is where York Redoubt really shines: they’ve taken all this ridiculous math-pop and made it serene; like just another pop song. Listen and buy the damn record. They. Are. Next.

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York Redoubt – I Said Slightly

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York Redoubt – Stenciled Lines

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July 14th, 2009

Dad. I want to die.

York Redoubt - Cheap Funerals York Redoubt
Cheap Funerals
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::

Halifax has this propensity to insert pop into everything it produces. Maybe it’s because the musical land-scape is like a giant venn-diagram with every genre-cloud fornicating until the only thing left is post-frat-orgy-remorse. Who cares? At the end of the day you end up with boundary pushing music that is incredibly accessible. York Redoubt’s debut cassette, Cheap Funerals, takes the insane time-changes and chord progressions often seen in arithmetic-rock and calculates its anti-derivative (with respect to time) to produce math-pop; it’s weird, it’s changing, it’s catchy. There are red-line vocals, noise freak-outs, songs that sound like pre-Sook-Yin-The-Wedge, panned-guitars, and more! And they’ve fit it all on a four-song cassette. Bravo!

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York Redoubt – Guilloteens and I

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York Redoubt – Dad

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