Blog: Direct Current

With fearless leader and creative visionary Joel Gibb at the helm, Toronto's sprawling art-pop collective The Hidden Cameras continue to expand and challenge the standards of what contemporary music can be. With four albums since 2001, Gibb and his ever-changing band of players have turned concert settings - clubs, churches, porn theaters - into stages for unpredictable "events" featuring blindfolded musicians, zombie choirs, dance ensembles and general onstage mayhem. It's a joyous, near "gospel" fervor that colors everything at hand, a free-wheeling attitude that makes the sum of Hidden Cameras infinitely greater than it's many and varied parts. [...]

• The Hidden Cameras - Walk On