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In our ongoing pursuit to encourage, document, and connect creative expression across Canada, we cut through waves upon waves of ethereal sounds, wyld shreddery, and brooding drones. It is magnificent. Some of the best grips escape our grasping fists. We list them here: Souns : Ambient A (Self Released :: Calgary, Alberta) “SH-2000” : SHHH (Self-Released :: Calgary, Alberta) Fire Moss : Adomania (Self-Released :: Kingston, Ontario / Montréal, Québec) F Hood : Release No. 91​-​018 (Self-Released :: Montréal, Québec) Brr : a pining (Art Metropole :: Toronto, Ontario) Yves Bouliane : Champ (10 Opérations) (Tenzier :: Montréal, Québec) Jaro Sounder : Attention Shoppers (Special Recordings :: Vancouver, British Columbia) yip y!p : girl socks - fave animals - sleepingbags (Self-Released :: Kuujjuaraapik / Montréal, Québec) Del Stephen : Unexpressed (Vacancy Recs. :: Niagara, Ontario) Massie Dome : Did Me Wrong (Self-Released :: Montréal, Québec) Soft Serve : Self Titled (Self-Released :: Vancouver, British Columbia) Monopus : Hesher (Sonolumen :: Newmarket, Ontario) Matthew Samways : Archive, I Blackness Begins II House of Laws III 10 000 Tears (Check :: Halifax, Nova Scotia) The Beverleys : Brutal (Self-Released :: Toronto, Ontario) Thom Huhtala : Stinky Feelings (Self-Released :: Toronto, Ontario) Youth Trend Report : Life Coach (Prairie Shag Recordings :: Regina, Saskatchewan) Otis King : Creature Comforts (Self-Released :: Hamilton, Ontario) Holy Hum + Stephen Carl O’Shea : Midnight Music (Heavy Lark Records :: Vancouver, British Columbia) Wheels Farley : s/t (Self-Released :: Vancouver, British Columbia) Yao Guai Cave (formerly Yaocave) : Brain Zaps (Pedicure Records :: Montréal, Québec) Michael Keith : Arcanum Verba (Self-Released :: Toronto, Ontario) Des Moines : Des Moines (Self-Released :: Montréal, Québec)
Notre quête constante visant à encourager, à mettre en contact et à décrire les pratiques d’expression créatrice au Canada nous fait traverser vague après vague de sons éthérés, de shreds déchaînés et de sinistres bourdonnements; et c’est magnifique. De véritables joyaux échappent parfois à nos mains avides. Ils sont énumérés ici : Souns : Ambient A (Self Released :: Calgary, Alberta) “SH-2000” : SHHH (Self-Released :: Calgary, Alberta) Fire Moss : Adomania (Self-Released :: Kingston, Ontario / Montréal, Québec) F Hood : Release No. 91​-​018 (Self-Released :: Montréal, Québec) Brr : a pining (Art Metropole :: Toronto, Ontario) Yves Bouliane : Champ (10 Opérations) (Tenzier :: Montréal, Québec) Jaro Sounder : Attention Shoppers (Special Recordings :: Vancouver, British Columbia) yip y!p : girl socks - fave animals - sleepingbags (Self-Released :: Kuujjuaraapik / Montréal, Québec) Del Stephen : Unexpressed (Vacancy Recs. :: Niagara, Ontario) Massie Dome : Did Me Wrong (Self-Released :: Montréal, Québec) Soft Serve : Self Titled (Self-Released :: Vancouver, British Columbia) Monopus : Hesher (Sonolumen :: Newmarket, Ontario) Matthew Samways : Archive, I Blackness Begins II House of Laws III 10 000 Tears (Check :: Halifax, Nova Scotia) The Beverleys : Brutal (Self-Released :: Toronto, Ontario) Thom Huhtala : Stinky Feelings (Self-Released :: Toronto, Ontario) Youth Trend Report : Life Coach (Prairie Shag Recordings :: Regina, Saskatchewan) Otis King : Creature Comforts (Self-Released :: Hamilton, Ontario) Holy Hum + Stephen Carl O’Shea : Midnight Music (Heavy Lark Records :: Vancouver, British Columbia) Wheels Farley : s/t (Self-Released :: Vancouver, British Columbia) Yao Guai Cave (formerly Yaocave) : Brain Zaps (Pedicure Records :: Montréal, Québec) Michael Keith : Arcanum Verba (Self-Released :: Toronto, Ontario) Des Moines : Des Moines (Self-Released :: Montréal, Québec)