Dirty Projectors deserve your attention. Beautiful vocal harmonies straddling the line of grating and gratifying, complex guitar parts, issued electronics it’s all there. These tracks are from the Bjork/Dirty Projectors collaboration Mount Wittenberg Orca that came out earlier this year. Super sick stuff. Enjoy!
-Dirty Deez
Hypnotic, psychedelic beats. Blues head nodding mixed with 70′s fuzz and a polite tip of the hat to early funk. The kind of music you would hear if you were a square, young protagonist in a coming-of-age film, you just ate a blotter of acid in your parents living room and now you’re sailing the corduroy arm chair on an ocean of shag carpet.
Silver Bullets – Monday Morning in Ragusa
Silver Bullets – Free Radical
Silver Bullets – Flight from Babylon
These guys poked there head into our room while we where practicing on friday, playing two shows in Vancouver that weekend. Sadly I was unable to attend either of them.. However I did manage to find a copy of their 7″ record which was released by Mammoth Cave. This Alberta label seriously blows my mind. I’ve yet to hear a single band on their roster that I didn’t love. Check out these infectious lo-fi punk tunes. Apparently Sharp Ends will be back in November, here’s hoping!
-lionsteeth
Smooth sailin’ easy peezy rock n’ roll. In the vein of a 1950′s Velvet Underground. Nice and light jingly jangly. Love love love it. Sonny & The Sunsets album Tomorrow Is Alright is fantastic, every song complimenting the next, check it out I promise you’ll be stoked unless your soulless…
Sonny & The Sunsets – Bad Vibes And Evil Thoughts
Sonny & The Sunsets – Love Among Social Animals
-lionsteeth
Montreal’s Parlovr have a new 7″ coming out on October 19th called Hell/Heaven/Big/Love. Below is the first track off of it, and it sounds great! The production is awesome, it sounds huge. Be excited!
Bonus take-away show!
Parlovr – Hell Heaven – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque.
I little while ago my buddy Juice told me about a band called Cool Runnings. My response to him was that when a band picks a name shared by one of my favorite John Candy movies, they better be damn good. Thankfully these guys deliver.
BANKROBBER is a Victoria band made up mostly of used frying pans and banana bread. They take part in rituals unknown to most common place kinfolk. A smoky back road hike from the river. Cloudiness with variable chances of clear skies. Your grandfathers best friend Louis. All these things and one. Syrupy melodies mostly made up of maple but sometimes rhubarb. A treat for the ears, a ghostly melodic folk haven. Midjuly by BANKROBBER for free HERE? Pick up Luminous Piles Of Fir as well from that nifty site.
-Lionsteeth
Sometimes I feel so blessed. Like there is this overwatching music god, who looks down on me every day. He pases his room in the cosmos and tries to plan out interesting ways in which he can coax out a little joy from me. Perhaps he would feed on this emotion if he was real, or maybe it’s just to see the look on my face but one the first listen of The Black Angels Phosphene Dream I’m sure you could see a smile on my face from the reaches of outer space. I have covered The Black Angels in great length on this blog, including a lengthy article and a few singles. Easily one of my favourite and longest liked bands The Black Angels have gone and done it again and in perfect timing. Fall is here, gone are the days of shimmering summer rhythms and just to synch it up perfectly Phosphene Dream takes the listener on a sombre yet ecstatic journey through 60′s throwbacks. In a way only The Angels can shit gets heavy, shit gets droney but unlike their previous albums…shit gets catchy. This album has all the old elements of the The Black Angels, continuous drone keyboard, driving guitars and drums and of course everything soaked in a warm blanket of reverb. Luckily the format changes on songs like Sunday Afternoon and Telephone. We are hit with wicked 60′s pop rock stylings in a fantastic way. I’m in love, this album will be in my top 5 of the year for sure. Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy, the vinyl record is complete with psychedelic album art and inner art book!
The Black Angels – Sunday Afternoon
The Black Angels – Haunting at 1300 McKinley
-lionsteeth
Run Chico Run have been making music together since 1997, a Victoria mainstay. Heavy keyboard action, baroque pop nausea, nuage psychedelia. R. C. R. consists of 2 Dudes (Thomas Shields and Matt Skillings) The two also play in The Pale Air Singers with The Cape May and work producing and mixing records for a number of local acts. Check them out!
RUNCHICORUN-Jacques and Madeline
- dirty
Sometimes you come across something that just makes you happy to be wherever you may happen to be. My Friend Wallis is from Vancouver. They make beautiful, gorgeous, relaxed music. Like that feeling you get when you go on vacation somewhere warm and you are sitting outside in the sun for the first time. The ice in your drink is melting and the condensation is building on the glass. It is keeping your hands cool, it feels nice. A slight breeze is winding through the air, gently blowing your hair across your forehead and you are thinking to yourself, “Ahhh…this is nice.”
I posted a couple of songs, but you can get the whole album for free on their bandcamp.
-slobby
