Tag: Blanche Blanche Blanche
Video: Blanche Blanche Blanche – TED Talks
A week can’t go by without news from Brattleboro. New Blanche Blanche Blanche album coming! The Wooden Ball tape, out March 5.
Video: Blanche Blanche Blanche & the Birds of Paradise – Press Dump
Zach Phillips – Cry (Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads cover)
Here’s a couple of tracks involving Zach Phillips, Brattleboro’s finest. The video is a collaboration between his Blanche Blanche Blanche project and the Birds of Paradise and the MP3 is a fantastic off-kilter cover of crooner Johnny Ray, the original from 1951.
New Release: Better Psychics – What Is Rule
Better Psychics – You Can Bring Your Battle Here
The prolific-beyond-reason Zach Phillips of Blanche Blanche Blanche has a project with Chris Weisman called Better Psychics, and they just released their second album, What Is Rule. We’ve already posted the first video, “Better Psychic Victim,” but here’s the latest video, as well as album standout “You Can Bring Your Battle Here.”
You can download the record for free courtesy of OSR Tapes.
Video: Better Psychics – Better Psychic Victims
Here’s a deeply odd little gem from Better Psychics, which features Zach Phillips of Brattleboro, Vermont’s own Blanche Blanche Blanche. Somewhere underneath it all is a lovely little pop song. Overtop it’s weird as hell.
Top Songs of 2012: 75-51
2012 has been the strongest year in memory for Canadian electronic pop. Established artists started new electronic projects, amazing new talents appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and one of our shining stars became a superstar recognized the world over. Canada is clearly at the epicenter of the zeitgeist – it’s a testament to the unbelievable talent in this country that we have 100 songs to present to you as the best of the year, and STILL had to exclude so many excellent tracks.
Montreal and Toronto may still have the most representatives of any Canadian city, but dark electro is thriving everywhere, from Halifax to Calgary, Ottawa to Vancouver, and exciting new hotbeds appearing in London, Ontario, and Grande Prairie, Alberta. We’re not too exclusively nationalist here at Silent Shout, so border states (minus NYC) appear too, with artists from Minneapolis, Seattle, and Brattleboro, Vermont making our list.
A huge thank you to all our readers, the folks who attend our events, and the bands that make brilliant music across this land for making 2012 an unforgettable year for us. Here’s to an even bigger 2013 for Canadian electronic music.
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
75. Electric Youth – The Best Thing
74. Elrichman – The Shah and I
73. Grapes Godly – No Storm
72. Le Roi Crocodile – Battles
70. Matthew A. Wilkinson – Skyscrapers in Paris
69. Purity Ring – Bellispeak II feat Danny Brown
67. Blanche Blanche Blanche – Fireworks
66. Renny Wilson – Could’ve it Been Me?
65. Moon King – Only Child
64. The Luyas – Fifty Fifty
63. Shadow Folk – Heaven’s Gate
62. Sally Dige – Doppleganger
61. Chairs – Indestructible Machine
60. New Zebra Kid – Go the Extra Mile
59. How Sad (formerly Goose Hut)- Stockholm Syndrome
57. Desire – Tears From Heaven
56. Rob Crooks – Hey! Hey!
55. Blanche Blanche Blanche – She’s Adopted
53. Grimes – Circumambient
52. Essaie Pas – 514 376-9230
51. Maylee Todd – Baby’s Got It
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
Previously: Top 20 Albums /// Top 20 Videos /// Top 15 Remixes /// Top 10 EPs
Top 20 Albums of 2012
There has been so much amazing music made this year. Most of these albums have been on constant repeat at the Silent Shout office since we heard them. If you’ve been following the blog all year our love for these records won’t surprise you. If you haven’t, we can’t wait for you to hear them! There shouldn’t be so much damn agreement in the critical world. We don’t need multiple lists of the same 50 albums in a slightly different order.
19. Kashka – Vichada – Bandcamp
18. Walter TV – Appetite – Bandcamp
17. Purity Ring – Shrines – Website
16. Karneef – In Error – Bandcamp
15. Man Made Hill – Intercourses – Bandcamp
14. Ghibli – Rare Pleasures – Bandcamp
13. Cabaal – Emanations – Bandcamp
12. Grimes – Visions – Wikipedia
11. Hot & Cold – Border Area – Bandcamp
10. You’ll Never Get to Heaven – S/T – Bandcamp
9. Mac DeMarco – Rock and Roll Night Club – Label
6. Kontravoid – Silent Visions – Bandcamp
5. Renny Wilson – “Sugarglider” – Bandcamp
3. Blanche Blanche Blanche – Wink with Both Eyes – Stream
2. Tenderness – The Axe is Ready at the Tree – Bandcamp
1. Femminielli – Double Invitation – Stream
Previously: Top 100 Songs /// Top 20 Videos /// Top 15 Remixes /// Top 10 EPs
Blanche Blanche Blanche – Papas Proof
Absolutely loving this early Of Montreal feeling track from Brattleboro, Vermont’s Blanche Blanche Blanche. So excellent. “Papas Proof” is the title track from a record they released a few months ago, buy it here.
