When rumors about the first ever BottleRock Napa festival began to circulate, they were impressive: early flyers listed Dave Matthews Band and Pearl Jam as headliners (neither was ever confirmed). Still, the festival had the attention of the Napa Valley and surrounding music lovers long ago. Once the final lineup had been released and tickets [...] The post BottleRock 2013 Review: Napa's Inaugural Music, Wine, and Food Festival appeared first on Spinning Platters .
Valleys are the result of longtime collaborators Marc St. Louis and Tillie Perks who pour their heart and soul into their just-released sophomore full-length album Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? The Montreal-based duo showcases their multitude of musical and lyrical talent by sharing vocal duties while Marc plays guitar, keyboards, and drums while Tillie plays the keys, guitar, and sequencer. Their sound has so much depth and intensity that it would be nearly impossible to guess that it was from a duo. This album is full of darkness and loss but at [...]
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by Tiana Feng Rating: Release Date: April 30th, 2013 Label: Kanine Records Valleys debut Sometimes Water Kills seems bleak and thin compared to what they have going on in their latest album Are You Going to Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? . This time the Montreal group have given [...]
Some bands like to make a statement with their album and song titles, some like to make a statement with their music. Some like to do both. Some, like Valleys , the Montreal-based duo of Matilda Perks and Marc St. Louis, can leave you temporarily bereft of making any coherent statements at all, much as they rendered me when hearing "Micromoving" for the first time. That song, the opener of their new LP, Are You Going to Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? , is a masterclass in the slow build. A [...]
The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that. So, every Friday I’ll be posting the best album streams and videos that were sent my way during the week. Take a scroll and find something worth remembering. FULL ALBUM STREAMS Still Corners - Strange Pleasures Little Boots - Nocturnes Dean Blunt - The Redeemer Savages - Silence Yourself [...]
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Today on Photogmusic Live , I had a phone interview with Sarah MacDougall . She will be playing a sold out show at the NAC 4th Stage in part of the Northern Scene taking place. I also played tracks from upcoming albums. Have a listen to the show . Photogmusic LIVE - April 29, 2013 by Photogmusic on Mixcloud [...]
Montreal duo Valleys stuff a lot of different sounds, genres, and techniques into their new LP, the page-stretchingly titled Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? . The album is a jigsaw puzzle of Marc St. Louis' rich, booming vocals, Matilda Perks' lofty coos, chilly electro-pop, house beats, and new wave synths. Although a stormcloud hangs uniformly over the set, it's not enough to make some of the pieces fit together. Each song on Are You Going To Stand There... could stand on its own, the introduction to some other album. The feedback [...]
By Jude Manning April 25, 2013 Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? is the challenge made to us by Valleys , the synth-pop Montreal-based duo of Matilda Perks (vocals, guitar, keyboards, and sequencer) and Marc St Louis (vocals, guitar, keyboards, and drums). It’s a soaring, uncompromising film-score of an album presenting interwoven sheaves of melodic keyboard, pulsing beats and introspective instrumentals, all wrapped around the ominous tones of St Louis’ vocals, Perks’ haunting refrains and choral combinations of the two. [...]
Montreal duo Valleys are about to release their newest album Are You Going To Stand There and Talk Weird All Night. The record is filled with lush vocals, layered choruses, and electronic textures that will stir your imagination. AMBY wanted to learn more about the album, so we caught up with Valleys to have a chat about funny crowd moments, the new album, and how “thou shalt be cool”. AMBY: Hello Valleys, what have you been up to? Valleys: Playing shows and meeting people. AMBY: How [...]
Robert Nethery And the theme of today's post is videos. Domestic videos if you're Canadian, and exotic foreign ones if you're not. And led off by Mr. Colin Stetson - who is in fact American by birth but Canadian by immigration - because he will be releasing his new album New History Warfare Vol 3: To See More Light next week on April 30, and because the man has a big horn. He's actually rolled out a few clips over the past few weeks - one doing double-duty [...]
Montreal duo Valleys concoct the perfect balance of shoegaze and synth-pop on ethereal single “Undream a Year.”
Just two weeks ago, Montreal based duo Valleys leaked 'Hounds' - an intriguing taster of their sprawling new album Are You Going To Stand There and Talk Weird All Night . Today, they return with an exclusive stream of said album which is due to drop via Kanine Records on 29 April. An adventure in dark cinematic undertones and brooding melancholy, Valleys operate in a world that sits them somewhere between the autobiographical torch songs of The National and the gaunt, electronic textures [...]
Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? will see daylight shortly. Watch 'Undream A Year' here. Enjoy 'Hounds' via SoundCloud. Like 'em on Facebook. Follow 'em on Twitter. Purchase Valleys items via Insound. 1. How does Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? compare with your earlier releases? I feel like we are always reacting to what we've done before. A lot of the songs are much more straightforward [...]
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April 13th was such a busy day for myself. At least I made it for this show that I had been dying to go to. Playing at the show: • Suuns • Valleys • Roberta Bondar I wanted to show up my support for the bands playing. Two I have seen a few weeks ago at [...]
Hounds è il secondo singolo, dopo Undream a Year , che esce ad anticipare la pubblicazione dell’album Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? del duo Valleys , prevista per il 30 Aprile via Kanine Records :
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To finish off my CMW 2013 adventures. I decided to stay at Lee's Palace for this great showcase. Playing at the show: • Suuns • Savages • Lioness • Valleys • Decades [...]
Valleys : Hounds - Stream
"Hounds", the second single from Montreal's Valleys , sounds of hurt with Matilda Perks morose vocals and atmospheric piano chords. According to Perks, the song was written during a time when she lost several of her friends and family members in unrelated accidents. It just goes to show that through pain, beauty can occur. The song appears on their upcoming album, Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? , to be released on April 30th via Kanine Records . Listen below.
On April 30th, Montreal duo Valleys will release their new album Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night via Kanine Records , an album that when you buy it on vinyl you can file it alongside your Chromatics and Glass Candy LPs (since you organise be genre). "Hounds" is replete with the same foreboding atmosphere that populated Chromatics ' latest album [...]
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