Ok. The final installment. The big hitters. 1:: Fred Squire – March 12 March 12 is full of some of the most beautiful, genuinely sad songs I’ve ever heard. The songs hit on emotions and fears so real that Fred just can’t turn and tell someone, so he writes songs to tell everyone. [...]
It Kills
East Coast represent:: Rich Aucoin, It Kills, Jenn Grant, Fred Squire and Ghettosocks/Extremities
Shane and I are heading down to CBC to blather on about herohill and what writing an East Coast music blog is all about. Instead of the post I had lined up – sorry The Provincial Archive, you will have to wait until tomorrow – I think it makes sense to give some quick links [...]
Best-of ’10:: Half way there (LPs)
Apollo Ghosts :: Mount Benson – review I’ve been riding Apollo Ghosts hard these last few months, including a constant barrage of tweets/posts to the Polaris jury hoping to help push them onto the short list. Mount Benson is a rough album in construction, but one that’s almost perfect in its fragmented nostalgia. [...]
Reviews:: It Kills self-titled
If you had to pick one word to describe the immensely dense songs Halifax’s It Kills puts out, it would be emotion. I’m not talking sung/screamed yelps, frantic guitars or sad sack wordplay. No, Lisa Lipton, William Robinson, and Solomon Vromans, fuse classically trained strings with inspired acoustic work and choir like falsetto or tribal [...]