Fuzz You!
The May holiday is over. I have a lot of catching up to do – I was looking for our review of the last album by Phoenix, when I realized that it had been released before the Fuzz was born. The band have clearly not used the four years in between to stage a musical transformation. [...]
Welcome to the forty-fourth post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is, you knew it and I didn’t lie, another branch on the Arbutus synth dance tree with Blue Hawaii’s debut album ‘Untogether’. Blue Hawaii is Montreal based Raphaelle Standell-Preston and Alexander Cowan. And no they’re not together no more [...]
Welcome to the forty-third post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is on the arbutus synth dance tree with Doldrums’s album ‘Lesser Evil’. Doldrums is Airick Woodhead, a Torontonian living in Montreal right next to the Arbutus tree. In the past couple of years he released some songs and videos [...]
The Fuzz’s verdict on the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) reformation album History of Modern (2010) was that it wasn’t terrible, just terribly redundant. Our expectations for band’s twelfth album therefore weren’t high, but the letdown we anticipated has been cancelled: English Electric is a surprisingly good record, with many clever references to OMD’s [...]
Welcome to the forty-second post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is power pop rock with Beekeeper’s extended play ‘Shout At People’. Beekeeper is a trio from Vancouver. Apparently Devon Lougheed is a comedian, Luke Cyca a protein synthesist, and Brandi Sidoryk opera singer. By now you know I have [...]
Welcome to the forty-first post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is dark synth waves with Trust’s album ‘TRST’ and gig at the Venue, Vancouver. Included are also some lines on opener Eraas (a non-Canadian duo from the big apple). Trust is normally a duo but on the dark stage [...]
Norway’s honey kids were our favorite new act at the 2012 edition of Eurosonic. A few weeks after the punk-rocker’s impressive gig at Vera, we were shocked by the news that their 20-year old drummer Anders Askildsen Eikås died in a car crash. The remaining members soon issued a statement saying that they would continue the [...]
On the ‘recently added’ playlist on my Ipod, the songs of Laura Mvula’s debut album, alternate with songs of Marnie Stern’s fourth album titled The Chronicles of Marnia. Mvula’s smooth Brit-soul is ten times more accessible and easier to describe than Stern’s insurgent experimental noise rock and so naturally it’s impossible for me to focus [...]
Welcome to the fortieth post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is radio pop rock with Wildlife’s sophomore album ‘…On The Heart’. Wildlife is a five piece band from Toronto. Throw a bunch of pop rock buddies from the past decades in a blender and you will get something that [...]
Welcome to the thirty-nineth post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is vulnerable piano pop with Marie Avery’s extended play ‘The Fire’. Marie is a teacher, singer songwriter and piano player from Hamilton, Ontario. It took her a good four years to put five songs on her debut EP called [...]