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February 17th, 2012

F Hood – Gloomy Labyrinth

F Hood
Gloomy Labyrinth
(Bruised Tongue)
Ottawa, ON
::web/sounds::

From brotherly diary entries of Pam Haasen:

This is a diary entry from my cousin’s recollection of her first acid trip. I think it applies here:
Crying will do no good. I am on the brink of everything. Tears well up and overwhelming joy tingles through my body like a hacky sack teeming with ants and funny bones. Moving my fingers is the most graceful thing in the world and a stream underneath IT ALL sends a wake that my brain can wind surf on. I’m laughing now like I’ve been hypnotized and my memory is in shock. I wish my hair was a little longer, though.

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F Hood – Dream Crush

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F Hood – Weekly Feel Up

File under: cassette // dream pop // f hood // music review // ottawa // pam haasen // pop // tape warble // trippin
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February 16th, 2012

New Canadiana :: The Pink Noise – White Buildings

The Pink Noise
White Buildings
(Night People)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

From the soylent husks of Pierre Richardson:

Minimal snaps and snips of the crash and burn generation are captured in this dimension, as songs heard in the underground dance clubs of Orwell’s 1984. We feel the bleak disgust of Mark Sauner’s mind, but he refuses to step it back. This is as classy as he’ll get, back alley hustler, smoke screen. On “Garden Times”, you know he’s trying to show you the way, but you don’t get it. And you never will—this is his nightmare. Broken and torn in two, needing an escape that isn’t possible. The end of the world already happened, and this is the soundtrack.

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The Pink Noise – Flit

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The Pink Noise – Garden Times

File under: burnt // disgruntled punk // music review // night people // pierre richardson // punk punk // synth punk // the pink noise // underground // weird punk
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February 15th, 2012

Ex Libris :: Mathematics Odyssey [Kent Windermere]

Mathematics Odyssey
Written by: Kent Windermere
(Self Published)
[93pp. Perfect Bound]
Vancouver, BC // Toronto, ON
Published: 2010

From the well-chosen adventuring of David Steinberg:

Clean, austere, marmoreal: the penetrating realism of the DIY choose-your-own-adventure Mathematics Oddyssey by Kent Windermere, illustrated by Eugena Simington, is the perfect fictionification of everyone’s first real analysis professor. The author’s outlook for the future treads a careful path between bleak and hopeful. Were he constrained to the typical linear narrative, he would have been forced to come to terms with the ultimate conclusions to which all stories refer: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. From his own uncertainties Kent crafts something much more elusive: an expression of the stress that is caused by the knowledge that your life depends solely on your choices. Though focused tightly on mathematics throughout (and let me stress this point: contemporary research-level mathematics, and the style of life such research provides), the message applicable to you and I rings loud and clear: choose wisely.

File under: amazing // choose your own adventure // david steinberg // incredible // kent windermere // latex // mathematics // research-level mathematics
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February 14th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Cannon Bros – Firecracker/Cloudglow

Cannon Bros
Firecracker/Cloudglow
(Disintegration Records)
Winnipeg, MB
::web/sounds::

From the cloudbursting cannon of Taylor Burgess:

This album’s ambiguous and visceral title pops like some insta-nostalgic mixture of The Zit Remedy, a nearly forgotten Eric’s Trip video and your overwrought LiveJournal entries from high school (which, upon second glance, are much more heartfelt and less embarrassing than you remember). Alannah W. and Cole W. have been making these one-, two-, and three-chorders for a few years now, apparently writing songs tallying into the hundreds, but have pared the laundry list down to 12 for this release. Switching between cymbals, skins and strings, they take turns singing about soft-shoeing through their lives and dealing with, y’know, the shitty stuff, but glossing it over. It all sounds peachy keen, albeit sometimes frantic.

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Cannon Bros – Take

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Cannon Bros – Out of Here

File under: cannon bros // disintegration records // indie music // pop // pure catch // rock // taylor burgess // winnipeg
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February 13th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Matthew A. Wilkinson – sSs EP

Matthew A. Wilkinson
sSs EP
(Self Released)
Grand Prairie, AB
::web/sounds::

From the magnetic fields of Jesse Locke:

Quick as a cricket, Grand Prairie’s holiest warbler zaps us through the post with his latest enchantment. The sSs EP picks up right where the spellbinding Namers left off, spiraling into black echoes for a series of cinematic miniatures, scraped strings, plucked banjos and touched electronics. The creeping horror culminates in “Cen eTe neR”, a nine-minute scorched earth awakening of cooing kitties and the post-rock dawn of its “secret song.” Discover Alberta.

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Matthew A. Wilkinson – yYy

File under: avant-garde // dissonance // experimental // grand prairie // jesse locke // matthew a. wilkinson // music review // nature // new age // weird folk
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February 10th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Bad Vibrations – Black Train

Bad Vibrations
Black Train
(Brotherhood Records)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::

From the bong-water depths of Alison Lang:

From the bowels of Haligonian earth comes, at last, a full-length offering of ruminations and rumble-punk from these three ramblers. Instant hits like “My Way” cut like a knife through an overall atmosphere of groovy murk, while “Muddy Waters” takes you to the rippling bong-water depths of classic grunge. Black Train hearkens back to moments of Moncton miasma while conjuring up an atmosphere of heavy, bleary bliss and magic all its own. My favorite album of 2011 can now become yours. Take a ride on this long strange trip.

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Bad Vibrations – My Way

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Bad Vibrations – Muddy Waters

File under: alison lang // bad vibrations // brotherhood records // garage // hali-rock // halifax // metal zone // muddy waters // music review // pop
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February 9th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Lantern – I Don’t Know b/w Out of Our Heads

Lantern
I Don’t Know b/w Out of Our Heads
(Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
Halifax, NS // Montreal, QC // Philadelphia, PA
::web/sounds::

From the cosmic murk of Simon Frank:

Cheaper than a leather jacket but equally effective at scaring your parents, Lantern’s new single takes them to new levels of speaker-blowing oblivion. “I Don’t Know” resurfaces from this summer’s tape on Night People, jabbed with adrenaline by drummer Sophie White’s Maclise-via-hambone beat. But B-side “Out of Our Heads” is the true highlight—nearly five minutes of relentless bass-as-extra-tom-tom, high pitched smears of sneers, and a final solo of celestial murk. For Cuban heels only.

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Lantern – I Don’t Know

File under: garage-punk // halifax // lantern // mammoth cave // montreal // music review // philadelphia // punk // shreddery // simon frank // zachary fairbrother
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