At last, we're at the end of a week long campaign to bring you the 75 songs, split into five collections of 15 songs each, that soundtracked the year for me. There's been a post a day this week from Monday to Friday (here's short cuts to Monday's post , Tuesday's post , Wednesday's post , and Thursday's post ), and you can collection them all to get a pretty awesome compilation that I think is a good summation of the last 12 months. To download a .zip file with today's set of music, click the [...]
And on the fourth day... I still bring you even more of the songs that rocked my world in 2012. Are they're all good. Here's the skinny: I'm giving you the 75 songs, split into five collections of 15 songs each, that soundtracked the year for me. There will be a post a day this week from Monday to Friday (You can click back to Monday's post to get the first part, Tuesday's post for part 2, and Wednesday's post part 3) , and you can collection them all to get a pretty awesome [...]
The third installment of the songs that rocked my world in 2012 is definitely a charmer. For those coming late to the party, here's the deets: I'm giving you the 75 songs, split into five collections of 15 songs each, that soundtracked the year for me. There will be a post a day this week from Monday to Friday (You can click back to Monday's post to get the first part, and Tuesday's post for part 2) , and you can collection them all to get a pretty awesome compilation that I think is a good [...]
Welcome back to the second installment of the songs that rocked my world in 2012. A small re-cap for those of you who missed out on yesterday's post: without any fanfare, ranking or listing, I'm giving you the 75 songs, split into five collections of 15 songs each, that soundtracked the year for me. There will be a post a day this week from Monday to Friday (You can click back to Monday's post to get the first part) , and you can collection them all to get a pretty awesome compilation that I think is a good [...]
This started last year, as a way to get out of having to pick a list of the songs that rocked my world this past year. For the most part, each and every time I write a post on Quick Before It Melts, it ends with a link to a song by the artist being discussed that day. In a year’s worth of posts, that amounts to a heck of a lot of songs to distill into a neat, little list of my favourites. So there's no listing or ranking involved this week, just a little gift from me to [...]
Time for another Music Alliance Pact post, the last of the year. As always, I'm pleased to be representing Canada in the world's best (and only?) global music blogging initiative alongside Montreal's Elephant Stone . There's a wealth of great music on offer from a number of music blogs around the globe, and I hope you'll take the time this weekend to check some of them out, and possibly discover some great new music, including the newest MAP blog, Ireland's Harmless Noise. CANADA [...]
A short but very sweet post today, featuring one of the artists from my favourite albums of 2012 list, Eight And A Half . The band recently released a pair of remixes they did for a couple of friends, namely Stars and Trust. All three artists will be making an appearance on these pages in the next week as part of a pretty special series of posts: from Monday to Friday next week, I'll be sharing with you not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE downloadable compilations of my favourite songs of [...]
(Valentin Mittelstet) I have to be honest here, the first time I heard Winnipeg's Boats , I wasn't exactly impressed, but the more I hear "Great Skulls", the first cut off their soon-to-be-released third LP, A Fairway Full Of Miners , I'm coming around to their quirky, improbably hook-filled pop. I'm a sucker for a supercool horn fill, and the trashy "junk-store" pop of this track is a much needed antidote to the sterile, poo-poo pop I've been hearing lately. Trashy as it [...]
(photo: facebook) Nothing says "it's Christmas!" like a little afro-beat funk to liven up boring old staid holiday parties, and you can't go wrong when you put Minotaurs on the sound system at soiree. The nine-piece crew is getting set to release a new album, New Believers , early in 2013 and have premiered the first single, "Open the Doors", which features Sarah harmer on guest vocals. New Believers was produced by Paul Aucoin (John K. Samson, Laura Barrett, National Parks Project, Hylozoists), mixed [...]
This morning as I set about having breakfast and coffee and got ready to write this post, I was having periodic bouts of the chills. It was as if someone was holding my hand atop a block of ice and then pulling it away. I felt it radiating from my spine outwards. I chalked it up to the brisk winter wind blowing outside, threw on a sweater, and sat down in front of the warm glow of the computer screen to write about Wool On Wolves and see if the sensations would abate. [...]
There was a point a little while back, while I was starting to think about this annual post, when I honestly didn't know what would end up being on my list of 10 favourite albums of 2012. In flipping back through my music library from the past year, I had accumulated fewer albums in 2012 than in previous years, so initially it seemed like it would be easy to pick a group of 10 from a shorter list. However, as in years past, of the records that would be eligible for the list, there were a glut of them than [...]
I guess it's not too hard to tell which wtchs WTCHS are named after, as there's really only a couple vowels that can flesh out their name properly, but I like the idea that it's not overly clear which wtchs they're trying to conjure. Probably more boil. boil. toil and trouble than tick tick tick. I also like the idea that this cassette-only release has had it's tape hiss "momentarily relinquished" in order to allow the interweb to experience Wet Weapons as well. The EP is [...]
Three years between Justin Rutledge albums is far too long. I'm happy that the drought is soon to end with the impending release of Vallyheart in February on Outside Music. The new disc was recorded in Toronto with Rutledge’s backing band, and featuring Bazil Donovan of Blue Rodeo on bass. Rutledge has spent a lot of time in California lately and says that, “Travel is a major theme on Valleyheart ... It is perhaps my most ‘Canadian’ album to date, even though it is heavily influenced by California.” [...]
It's only been a few of months since Little Hand Fighter was featured here, but Matt LeGroulx of Expwy says he's been "trying to keep up with this Ty Segall guy and he is prolific this year," so his answer has been to release a double concept EP about neighbourhoods destroyed by highways called Expwy in the Sky. Tracks 1-6 are meant to be played simultaneously with tracks 7-12, and though I haven't managed to do so yet, I've managed to be entranced by this confident, [...]
( Allison Staton ) By all accounts it looks like it's been a pretty decent year for Cobra & Vulture (who used to be Nightwood ), gigging regularly and frequently, releasing a second EP and working on a soon-to-be-released full length debut. There's no official release date for Grasslands , the above mentioned debut LP, but recently Amber Goodwyn, Erin Ross, and Jeremy MacCuish, sent me a sample of the work they've been doing. The song, "Prairia" was recorded in Cobra & Vulture's practice space, [...]
Reg Verume is a guy who's never been afforded the praise that is his due. As Gentleman Reg , he's created an impressive back catalogue of indie-rock/pop and been thick in the middle of Toronto's much hyped music scene, but never really had the spotlight on him. Hopefully that starts changing now that he's completed work on his fifth full length (after debuting it in three installment EPs earlier this year), a solid and expansive album called Leisure Life . It's the first time Verume has worked with a consistent band line [...]
(Vanessa Heins) Tomorrow is December 1. For some people, that's the day they cut loose their Christmas spirit from the shackles that have held it at bay for the last 11 months. For me, it's the day I toss out November's contact lenses and pop in a fresh pair. Then I do my laundry. Okay, I'm that that big of a Scrooge, so perhaps, if there's a brisk north wind in the air, and my breath frosts the window pane just so when I look out at a light dusting of snow [...]
How could I not post about the new LP from Cape Breton's Tom Fun Orchestra when they've named the disc's opening track after me? Okay, maybe I'm not the Jim of "Merry Christmas Jim", but when you have a name as unique and uncommon as Jim, any time you see it in print you immediately think it's a direct message from the cosmos to you. Or is that just me? When I think of The Tom Fun Orchestra I think of down home goodness and pure wild abandoned [...]
As mentioned in an earlier post, Digits has been working on a new project: a serialized story called In the City of the Dead , being written and recorded as ongoing installments across various blogs and websites. The story revolves around J., a journalist who finds himself locked in a quarantined city where the living dead are taking over. Quick Before It Melts is pleased to be presenting the latest In the City of the Dead chapter/track: [...]
Alex Hackett was a member of Kill The Lights , a band that is, unfortunately, no longer with us, but he's keeping their 90s influenced sound alive with his new project, Pang Attack . His latest EP, Phantom Forest , is haunted by ghosts in the drum machines, and spirits in the keyboards. They make their presence known by playfully floating into and out of the mix, as on the beautiful "Breffknell", bringing an otherworldly sensibility to this musical garden. Pang Attack's previous EP, Dreamer's Drug , is available on [...]
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