HSY – HSY (2014) review
HSY "HSY" (7" EP) (Buzz Records. 2014) http://buzzrecordsto.bandcamp.com/album/hsy-ep Holy fuck Toronto must have their water supply spiked with some powerful chemicals because that is the only explanation for...
Matt Yablonski
Ketamines – The 7″ Single Series (2013-2014) review
Ketamines - The 7" Single Series: "All the Colours of Your Heart" "Eleven Eleven" "So Hot!" "Stay Awake" (Pleasence Records, Leaning Tree Records, Hosehead Records, Mint Records, 2013-2014)...
Don Cherry -Brown Rice (1975) review
Don Cherry "Brown Rice" (EMI, 1975) Don't let the name confuse you, Don Cherry isn't the Canadian hockey loud mouth with a taste for suites so gawdish that...
Betrayers – Let the Good Times Die (2014) review
Betrayers - Let the Good Times Die (Perfect Master Records, 2014) http://thebetrayers.bandcamp.com/ Slipping under most radars Edmonton psych tinged garage rockers Betrayers might have released one of the...
The Backhomes – Talk b/w Backward Sunshine (2014) review
The Backhomes "Talk b/w Backward Sunshine" (Self-released, 2014) http://thebackhomesband.bandcamp.com/album/talk-b-w-backward-sunshine Some might say leaving a semi successful band like The Besnard Lakes and moving across the country might be...
Walrus – Glam Returns (2014) review
Walrus "Glam Returns" (Poncho Records & Out of Sound Records, 2014) http://ponchorecords.bandcamp.com/album/glam-returns Psychedelic pop so good you would expect these kids to be drinking the LSD straight from...
Total Control – Henge Beat (2011) review
Total Control "Henge Beat" (Iron Lungs Records, 2011) https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/henge-beat-lp While this album has been out for a few years now I find myself constantly returning to it. A...
Odonis Odonis – Better EP (2013) review
Odonis Odonis - "Better" EP (Buzz Records, 2013) http://buzzrecordsto.bandcamp.com/album/better-ep Sometimes an album is hard to describe. Taking elements of surf rock, noise and industrial rock, and sludgy as...
Snapper – Snapper 12″ EP (2013) review
Snapper "Snapper" 12' EP (Flying Nun & Captured Tracks, 2013) https://flyingnun.bandcamp.com/album/snapper The sounds of New Zealand from the late 70s and throughout the 80s and into the 90s...
Teledrome – Teledrome (2014) review
Teledrome - Teledrome (Mammoth Cave Recording Co./P.Trash/FDH, 2014) This record has been a long time coming, a very long time coming! Since I first heard this band on...