Video: Cygnets – Day Seven
Edmonton’s DIY new-wave darlings Cygnets have put together another video for their raving fans. Exploring body-dysmorphia, obsession and various tongue-in-cheek goth-tropes. Directed and starring front-man Logan Turner, who only wears a t-shirt if it’s a v-neck with a prophetic slogan on it. Love it.
MP3: Animal Bodies – Lies In Your Eyes (Snowy Red cover)
Vancouver’s Animal Bodies pays tribute to pioneer dark-wave band Snowy Red. Everything about this track is right up my alley, swelling bass-line, squelching guitar and vocals recorded in a dreary cave from a Bela Lugosi film. A great track from a glowing compilation that immediately make me want to dive in to the Snowy Red catalog.
MP3: James Deen – July
No, it’s not the Teen Mom bangin’ porn-star James Deen, it’s the 18 year old producer from Kelowna, BC. Checkout this summery tribute to my favourite month, which coincidentally will be the soundtrack to my upcoming sextape with one of the celebrity houses from MTV’s Cribs.
New Release: Sing Leaf – Watery Moon
Occupying a delicious sweet spot between Slim Twig and Dirty Beaches, Toronto’s Sing Leaf drops a new full length on Chill Mega Chill Records. The album is available on cassette, and is limited to 25 copies. Snooze and lose, or cop and cruise as the old adage goes.
MP3: A Tribe Called Red & Das Racist – Indians From All Directions
We don’t usually post a lot of rap on the blog, but A Tribe Called Red really holds it down on the production front, and with the addition of Das Racist in the mix, I couldn’t resist. Grab the free download while it lasts.
MP3: Tofu Stravinsky – All I Can Do
As an electronic music fan from Calgary, I half expect everything that comes from Nelson, BC to be trance, goa or something similarly inspired by hallucinogens, dreadlocks and long winters trapped in the BC interior. This track from Tofu Stravinsky is more along the lines of a hybrid of U2 and the Pet Shop Boys, retaining all the best attributes of both bands and abandoning the bad.
MP3: Dirty Beaches – Landscapes In The Mist
Barely 2 years after the release of the amazing LP Badlands, Dirty Beaches‘ Alex Hungtai is back with a DOUBLE LP coming out on Zoo Music. This instrumental haunts as it takes a slow walk down dark road and is a great preview of what’s to come. Wish Dirty Beaches luck as he heads out on an intense tour of Europe, and please join my hashtag campaign on twitter to get him to come to Calgary, Alberta. #DRTYBCHSYYC2013
MP3: Psychic Cats – PUPPETBAND
This is weird, and that’s the way it ought to be. This has been around for a minute, but Psychic Cats has blown my mind with PUPPETBAND. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but that’s probably a good thing.
MP3: Data Romance – Can’t Keep Your Mind Off (Vacationer Remix)
Data Romance – Can’t Keep Your Mind Off (Vacationer Remix)
Data Romance had their hand at the Vacationer track ‘Good as New’ and now it’s Vacationer’s turn to mix things up. Vacationer pops-up the already catchy Can’t Keep Your Mind Off from Data Romance’s recent LP Other.
MP3: James Deen – Dreams, Again
James Deen is an 18-year-old producer hailing from the bikini-babe capital of British Columbia, Kelowna*. He may be a young-gun, but he’s already got a LP lined up to be released on Purr Tapes. Atmospheric and laid back chillwave from a place most commonly known for it’s orchards.
*this is obviously in jest, I don’t know anything about Kelowna but someone told me once there were bikini-babes there.
