Brooklyn's Dream Affair released their ' From Now On ' EP on vinyl this week via Artificial Records/HDD (digital previously available). The coldwave/post punk trio craft stormy sounds with an 80s goth bent. If you like bleak pop tunes, you may have found a new friend - if not, carry on. Dream Affair - 'From Now On' [...]
Après le single cassette Catch my Breath paru en novembre de l'année passée, et révélant autre chose qu'un copié/collé référencé et désuet dans la cuisine shoegaze de Beliefs , les labels Hand Drawn Dracula ( lire ), Manimal et No Pain in Pop viennent de sortir le 3 mars dernier le premier long format des Canadiens confirmant cette disposition à insuffler, dans un halo de saturations blêmes, un sémillant songwriting, à la fois honnête et pénétrant, rappelant les meilleures heures de The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ( lire ). Né de la rencontre de Josh Korody [...]
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Today I had a band from Toronto/Hamilton called Young Running . They did a two live song set. Also a interview with them. Have a listen to the show . Photogmusic LIVE - Playlist & Interview with Young Running on CHUO FM February 25, 2013 by Photogmusic on Mixcloud [...]
Another wide-eyed sprawler from Toronto shoegazers Beliefs . "Gallows Bird" bides time winding around itself for a solid five minutes, eventually gathering the momentum to launch into something a bit more rhythmic by the time minute seven rolls around. Catch this this one on their self-titled LP when it's out March 5 via Hand Drawn Dracula / Manimal / No Pain In Pop . The post listen: Beliefs - "Gallows Bird" appeared first on Soft Signal .
Earlier this month, Toronto shoegaze outfit Beliefs dropped their introductory single, "Catch My Breath," and it didn't take much longer for the follow-up video, which matches their fuzzy aesthetic with equally fuzzy clips of the band marooned on a coast somewhere. Directed by Henry Sansom and James Mejia. Beliefs' Self-Titled debut is out sometime in March via Hand Drawn Dracula / Manimal / No Pain In Pop . Connect to Beliefs: Facebook // Twitter The post video: Beliefs - "Catch My Breath" [...]
[directed by Henry Sansom & James Mejia
Well, well, Beliefs dropped a new 73 on Hand Drawn Dracula / No Pain In Pop , did they? And I didn't even know about it... Hmph! Maybe Josh Korody (who did a nice mastering job on my last Bulldog Skin EP a couple months ago at his Candle Recordings studio) thought I'd fallen off the Earth since I've been gone so long (- he'd be very nearly correct). In any case, there's two songs, both kick massive testicles (that's a good thing), and I look [...]
torna la formazione canadese dream pop Beliefs , dopo l’album omonimo dello scorso anno, con il nuovo singolo Untitled - contiene due nuovi brani, ed esce per Hand Drawn Dracula e No Pain In Pop :
Toronto's Beliefs released their new 'Untitled' single via Hand Drawn Dracula / No Pain In Pop this week. The two track release features the shoegazer 'Catch My Breath' and the dream pop leaning 'Violets'. If you're a cassette lover, there's a limited run of 100 on offer here . Download audio file (Beliefs-Catch-My-Breath.mp3) Shop @ Hand Drawn Dracula / Visit Beliefs @ Bandcamp @ Tumblr @ Facebook .
Le 11 septembre prochain, Hand Drawn Dracula publiera digitalement le single Paradise (In A While) de Breeze , parution doublée d'une sortie cassette à tirage ultra-limité. Comme la plupart des projets défendus par le label patronné par James Meija - longuement interviewé par ici - Breeze est le fait d'accointances amicales, d'un side-project emballant puis d'une collaboration des plus fructueuses. Josh Korody, producteur et architecte d' Elk et de Belief , imagine tout d'abord seul des textures sonores inspirées d'un shoegaze à la Ride - où d'oniriques mélodies filtrent au travers d'un brouillard de distorsions - puis s'entoure d'amis - Kyle Connolly d'Elk [...]
As you know, I'm already a big fan of Elk (whose latest, Daydreams , is on my Heavy Rotation list), and I've been equally impressed this summer by Dusted (whose Total Dust LP is also on Heavy Rotation), so imagine my surprise to find out that Elk's Josh Korody and Dusted's Leon Taheny are partners at Candle recording Studios in Toronto. While that's cool in its own right, what's even cooler is the information that led me to this discovery, mainly that Korody has been working on some solo material under the name [...]
My goodness, this might be the Summer of Hand Drawn Dracula . After co-releasing the fantastic debut LP from Dusted, HDD ups the ante with a 100 tape run/digital single from the new Toronto band, Breeze . With little more than pencil schematics scribbled into his trusted notebook, Josh Korody slowly recruited an army of talent to fully realize his sonic visions. Drafting foot soldiers from Elk, Hot Hot Heat, Louise Burns, Elk and The Great Bloomers, the unit moves with grace; demonstrating an effortless souplesse as they glide over the peaks and through the [...]
Décrire avec un souci d’exhaustivité la scène indépendante canadienne s'avère presque aussi improbable que mettre Paris en bouteille. Non que l'activisme musical soit de ce côté-là de l'Atlantique une cause nationale, mais celui-ci, lorsqu'il est de mise, se trouve être le vecteur d'une démultiplication presque infinie de groupes ou de structures sous-tendant ces-derniers. Et ce qui vaut pour Electric Voice Records ( lire ) avec Montréal et Halifax vaut pour Hand Drawn Dracula avec Toronto... et Halifax : créés par des artistes sévissant en Nouvelle-Écosse, et puisant dans leurs réseaux d'affinités, ces deux labels revendiquent la [...]
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The third band that I stuck around at the Hand Drawn Dracula NXNE Showcase. It was Dusted . Having just saw them play the Vice / Jansport Bonfire Sessions that took place at Artscape Gibraltar Point . I finally got to stick for a full set of their music. This was the first time to actual hear Brian Borcherdt sing. Since I am familiar when he plays in Holy Fuck. I actually like Dusted, it was [...]
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The second band that I stuck around at the Hand Drawn Dracula NXNE Showcase. It was Rituals from Toronto. They played a loud indie punk rock shoegazing set. I was really impressed with that set before hyping up to A Place To Bury Strangers. Here are the rest of the photos.
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Started off the night at the El Mocambo. It was the Hand Drawn Dracula NXNE Showcase. I got there for the last two songs of Toronto's Army Girls . At least I took alot of shots of Carmen having the guitar over her head. They did put on a great rocking set! Here are the rest of the photos.
Dusted is Holy Fuck member Brian Borcherdt with Leon Taheny (Final Fantasy) producing. Believe me, this isn’t what you’d expect from anyone that was part of that raucous dance act. The raw, burnt-at-the-edges production, apparently put down in a garage and rural cabin, creates an intimate window to Borcherdt’s soulful scribblings. His muddied guitar (through a blown practice amp) and emotive vocal are stirring to say the least. It's like fried out folk. Total Dust reaches out from the start. All Comes Down has the six-string reverberating in its own dirty pool of [...]
After years of extensive touring in Toronto's electronic outfit Holy Fuck , Brian Borcherdt has embarked on his own side project called Dusted . In the side project, Borcherdt teams up with Final Fantasy's Leon Taheny and creates stripped down, melodic folk tunes. The duo also recently premiered their song "Property Lines" on Stereogum . Listen to their first single "(Into The) Atmosphere" here: Dusted - (Into The) Atmosphere by totallyDusted Dusted's full-length debut album Total Dust will [...]
Dusted è il nuovo progetto di Brian Borcherdt (già con Holy Fuck e diverse altre formazioni), in compagnia di Leonard Taheny dei Rituals - l’album di esordio Total Dust uscirà a Luglio per Hand Drawn Dracula .
Happy Friday, folks. Hope your week has been less stressful than mine has. I for one need this weekend something fierce, and I hope to spend it holed up in my little cave, headphones at the ready to lose myself into some damn fine music. Blogging and music have been an afterthought these past few weeks, and I think I need some serious time to reconnect. There's been a tonne of new music coming my way and I've barely had the time or energy to sort through it all, let alone kick back and enjoy it. One song [...]
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