Actual Water - "La Violence sur les Champs-Élysées" . At first it seemed like a regular charge, an army with pikes and muskets marching down the boulevard. But as they passed through the tulip gardens, the soldiers began to change. Musketmen blurred into pikemen. Generals became their uniforms. Greens, blacks and pinks seemed to smear together. There was still violence in the crowd, still gunsmoke and pride. But this wasn't a gang of gathered patriots. This was a hideous, splendid, multi-limbed thing , galloping through broken petals. [Actual Water are from Toronto. They make lo-fi [...]
The Paisley Orchard is the forthcoming (out January 24th)third release from Toronto band Actual Water . It showcases their sound, one which blends up garage rock, '60s folk pop, and psychedelia into a delicious smoothie of indie rock goodness. The tone is set quickly with the psychedelic jangly rock of "Pale Ways". Listening to that track makes me feel like this is what The Black Lips would sound like if they were tripping on LSD. Songs like the modernized Byrds -esque vocal folk of "Dandelion Sun" are strangely majestic, [...]
Toronto lo-fi pop outfit Actual Water are back after a long absence. The band of York U. grads will release their new album, The Paisley Orchard , on January 24th, nearly four years after hitting the scene. Check out the video for "La Violence sure Les Champs-Élysées" here: Here's the track listing for the album: Pale Ways Ivory and Oak La Violence sur Les Champs-Élysées The Paisley Orchard The Situation [...]
Photography by purpleplaid "Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart." - Menicus This week ended up being about fulfilling childhood memories, letting my childlike spirit fly round and having fun. It was Canadian Music Week in Toronto but I only saw two shows at CMW as I am really not a fan of this festival. The only acts I felt worthwhile seeing, I had already seen throughout the year, in better venues with better crowds and totally cheaper. I did catch Rich Aucoin [...]
Art by Sachin Teng Hello Lovelies! Hope everyone had a great week! This past one was kind of slow for me as I only made it out to one show but it was pretty great! There were two local Toronto bands, Ohmno and Actual Water both of which I'll definitely be checking out again very soon. The third band on the bill was The Beets from New York and man oh man they were killer!! I hadn't given them a listen beforehand and glad I [...]
Foxes in Fiction Toronto Warren Hildebrand I've got a bunch of little projects going on right now, it's actually great. I'm working on recording a new EP that I'm releasing through my cassette label Orchid Tapes, which I'm gonna be using to release a bunch of other music by some close friends of mine; Ghost Animal, the summer compilation by Beko ( [...]
Foxes In Fiction We got sent a very lovely album entitled Swung From The Branches from Warren Hilderbrand, aka Foxes In Fiction of Toronto, of whom we made a post about back in our afro days. Vaguely split into an A and B side, the first half explores ambient synth sketches of a contemplative nature, reveling in the minimal, unmediated yet evocative beauty of chords and harmony and their tidal movement over time, while the second half is dedicated to gentle, under-stated pop reconstructions of a [...]
Bon c'est bien joli, toute cette musique de folk, ambiante, expérimental, etc, etc, par ici... C'est le week-end, et cela va pas nous aider à sortir ce soir ! Et pour cela j'ai un petit quelque chose de plus actuel, plus punky, plus criard. Donc avant de vous retrouver, à vous vautrer dans la bière et à vociférer des injures... Ecoutez plutôt Leon d' Actual Water . Ah et pis tient buvez de l'eau, sans modération, pendant que vous y êtes ! P.S. : Ma translèteuse de Leslie se trouve au vert donc pas d'anglais jusqu'à [...]
Actual Water Versatile band from Toronto: from hard, menacing proto-punk of the Stooges and MC5 to ambient instrumentals, to this elegant comedown track which to my ears sounds like it could have been the backing track to something from Iggy Pop's The Idiot. Actual Water - Botique Neighberhoods ( mp3 )
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