Mean Red Spiders - Places You Call Home (1998) review

Mean Red Spiders “Places You Call Home” (Teenage USA
Records, 1998)

You honestly cannot believe how stoked I am to discover this
album. Dreamy psychedelic rock from Toronto in the 90s?!!!? This is the kind of
90s Canadian indie music I was wishing to hear for years. With so many Canadian
bands around that time falling into the similar sounds of the band Sloan this
is a breath of fresh air. With lush guitars that just melt when the sound hits
your ears you would immediately think this band should have originated in the
UK back in the late 80s with all the other shoegazy dream rock acts. This could
easily be the cool younger Canadian cousin of the band Slowdive, family
reunions wouldn’t be awkward if these two bands got together. This record is
hard to find, but I do believe it is available digitally through Amazon or
Itunes, it is totally worth the dollars, and if you manage to find a physical
copy cherish it because they probably wont be repressing this anytime soon!

*I would also like to note that Sloan isn’t a bad band, they
are actually really awesome. Hence all the copycats!

Review made by Matt Yablonski/2014