New Canadiana :: Various Artists – Bloodstains Across the Prairies

Various Artists
Bloodstains Across the Prairies
(Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
Saskatchewan, SK // Winnipeg, MB
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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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