“They mine music from the most extreme intersection of beauty and melancholy.†Pitchfork “This is paranoid music that’s utterly original and incredibly beautiful.†Exclaim Well, what can I add? It's Picastro and they're back with a stripped down collection of hymns and ...Read More
The Bungled and the Botched is Nadja’s most scorching and most achingly beautiful set yet, pushing the boundaries into ever greater washes of distortion and crystalline silences. Originally available as a limited CDR, Blocks now presents a re-edited version of ...Read More
A free live album of electrocoustic-sound art-minimalist-hardcore-ear-ecstasy that will save the lagging marriage between your brain and auditory canal. Includes "Intro: Work for 10 Boom Boxes and Hardcore Punk loops." On 10 boomboxes arranged in a semi circle are cassettes ...Read More
The Torrent is not named after a download protocol. Mike Barry plays guitar and sings, and Cameron Groves sings, plays violin and deals with the machines. Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star said, and I quote, "[Leonora Moreno]is a sexy/nasty ...Read More
Four years in the making, produced by Jesse Laine and CW, with artwork by Tara Azzopardi, and featuring 14 sparkling pop gems ranging in style and subject matter, from Burt Lancaster to dead goldfish via hermetic paranoia. Exclaim also called ...Read More
$100's gut-hard and honey-sweet country will break your heart then make you want to occupy a government building. First in their series of regional 7-inches. ORDER NOW Read More
On Plays to Please Owen Pallett pays tribute to the songs of Toronto’s Alex Lukashevsky and Deep Dark United. Deep Dark United’s music can be described as…indescribable but under its waves of hazy unease lay perfectly made songs that Pallett had ...Read More
Beats as heavy as the weight of modern life. Hardcore chants as unintelligible as the middle class masses screaming for kitsch fixes. Steve Kado's first full length album sets the ideas of Theodor Adorno to a discofied despair that's like ...Read More
Last spring, Final Fantasy and members of Beirut went outdoors with instruments, microphones, and Alan Lomax’s headphones for an ethnomusicological exercise in fake field recordings that captures the culture of the fictional land of Spectrum. If you’re expecting dulcimers, Tibetan thigh ...Read More
Projected Lights is a DVD of Toronto's shadow play and projection performance scene featuring fourteen works from: Shary Boyle, the Singing Saw Shadow Show, Steph Comilang and Final Fantasy, Yuula Benivolski & Zeesy Powers, Jordan Somers feat. Sandro Perri, ...Read More
