An album mixing up melodic folk rock with moments of Van Occupanther harmonies through visitations of banjo and fiddle to the polite wrist-slashing melancholy of The Cowboy Junkies.
Reviews Canada
Rock Plaza Central sign to Paper Bag records for new releases
Rock Plaza Central sign to Paper Bag records and gear up for the release of their new album, the follow-up to 2006′s fantastic “Are We Not Horses?”.
Julie Doiron – I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day is: a short 1/2 hour listen, nicely put-together, engaging, slightly annoying if you listen to it in a cynical mood, but overall comforting and warm. Not bad at all.
Woodpigeon – Treasury Library Canada
Folk music is better off with Woodpigeon around. They challenge convention, without any loss of honesty or respect. Shain Shapiro reviews the latest from one of Canada’s finest.
Share – Pedestrian
The charm here is in Share’s ability to craft really small intimate songs that sound gigantic. ‘Pedestrian’ is a record of poetry, full of stories to embrace.
Grand Theft Bus – Made Upwards
‘Made Upwards’, the second from Grand Theft Bus, is smart, challenging and gratifying. A rare one even, as it injects intelligentsia into indie-pop without adding pretension, which is inherently difficult.
The Olympic Symphonium – More in Sorrow Than in Anger
The Olympic Symphonium have a mission statement for contemplative acoustic loveliness and here they deliver on it. Andrew Dowdall reviews.
Wintersleep – Hoxton Square Bar, London 18/02/09
So, a trip to the papp-patrolled streets of Hoxton, where if you listen very hard you can sometimes hear the crack of matchstick thighs buckling under the weight of their owners own bodies. Andrew Dowdall catches one of Canada’s finest bands.
Hot Panda – Volcano… Bloody Volcano
Hot Panda are from Canada. They MIGHT sound like Wolf Parade and their album’s good, even if Tom Whyman has some difficulties in articulating it…
Wintersleep – Welcome To The Night Sky
Self-assured and anthemic sing-along-a-Mogwai – which is a good thing. Andrew Dowdall reviews Wintersleep’s epic new album.
Introducing: The Buttless Chaps
They’ve been playing in their native Canada for over ten years, but TLOBF thinks it is about time the UK got better acquainted with Vancouver’s The Buttless Chaps.
Introducing: That’s The Spirit
A bold statement perhaps, but a few of us here at TLOBF truly believe that the debut album by Ben Wilson’s indie pop outfit That’s The Spirit is one of the best things to come out of Canada all year. And, considering the competition – that is certainly saying something.
