Monday, April 03, 2006
details @ five
I missed the Hylozoists on Thursday (with Cuff the Duke and the Fembots), so I was pretty psyched when I got a MySpace alert (I knew it was good for something) from the fine folks at Boompa letting me know that they were putting on a free show tonight at the Media Club.
The band's line up is a constantly shifting who's who of Canadian indie rock, with sometime Sadie, Paul Aucoin, at the helm. Although, "helm" may not be the correct term. He's definitely the driving creative force, but as a live entity there's not a distinctive front man. Tonight the band were a gang of nine (Julie Penner, who plays violin and also sings is tied up with other gig), with two drummers and, at times, a whopping three xylophones. When it comes to mostly instrumental music, I usually file things into one of three categories: "sounds like godspeed," "sounds like sigur ros," "sounds like mogwai." Hylozoists don't fit in any of the preceding categories. They don't have that soundtrack-to-the-apocalypse thing that Godspeed has going. They don't have that majestic "can't you just see mountains and birds and crap?" thing that Sigur Ros has going. And, they certainly aren't going to pummell year ear drums into submission like Mogwai do. Instead, they make songs that sound genuinely happy... bouncy... joyful even (and I mean that in the best possible way). In retrospect, I don't now what else you'd expect from band that has a machine blowing bubbles into the crowd for the duration of their set.
Their new album, La Fin Du Monde (coincidentally, also the name of my favourite Quebecois beer) is out on June 20th.
now playing: The Concretes - Miss You (Rolling Stones Cover)
details @ five
I missed the Hylozoists on Thursday (with Cuff the Duke and the Fembots), so I was pretty psyched when I got a MySpace alert (I knew it was good for something) from the fine folks at Boompa letting me know that they were putting on a free show tonight at the Media Club.
The band's line up is a constantly shifting who's who of Canadian indie rock, with sometime Sadie, Paul Aucoin, at the helm. Although, "helm" may not be the correct term. He's definitely the driving creative force, but as a live entity there's not a distinctive front man. Tonight the band were a gang of nine (Julie Penner, who plays violin and also sings is tied up with other gig), with two drummers and, at times, a whopping three xylophones. When it comes to mostly instrumental music, I usually file things into one of three categories: "sounds like godspeed," "sounds like sigur ros," "sounds like mogwai." Hylozoists don't fit in any of the preceding categories. They don't have that soundtrack-to-the-apocalypse thing that Godspeed has going. They don't have that majestic "can't you just see mountains and birds and crap?" thing that Sigur Ros has going. And, they certainly aren't going to pummell year ear drums into submission like Mogwai do. Instead, they make songs that sound genuinely happy... bouncy... joyful even (and I mean that in the best possible way). In retrospect, I don't now what else you'd expect from band that has a machine blowing bubbles into the crowd for the duration of their set.
Their new album, La Fin Du Monde (coincidentally, also the name of my favourite Quebecois beer) is out on June 20th.
now playing: The Concretes - Miss You (Rolling Stones Cover)
2 Comments:
what about "sounds like tortoise"... apparently, the AIH show has been moved to the Plaza Club too.
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12:13 a.m.
to be completely honest, i haven't been exposed to much tortoise, so i couldn't confirm or deny... thnx for the headsup on the AiH show.
