4D
L’Equanimité

By Chris Whibbs

When you think of music emanating from Inuit communities, you think of throat singing and, well, not much else. Throat singing certainly captures a certain aspect of Inuit culture, but this project captures the isolation that comes from living and working in the Great White North. 4D is actually one man (Dominick Lareau), who lives and works in the vast area of Nunavik. The music is all Lareau, and his strained and manipulated voice pops up on all tracks. The music itself is a huge haze of slight, feedback-driven guitars, strained electronics and, on occasion, some pounding, industrial-sounding drums. Opener “Les Morts-Vivant Sifflent” is the most melodic thing here and the only one that skirts the description of “catchy,” with its cascading guitar and menacing bass line keeping the tension cool and detached. “Suvit?” is more what the rest of this album feels like, or a whole mess of instruments thrown together in a morass of organisation. Isolation can lead to inspired things but another set of ears might be a good thing once in a while. (Disques Fruit)

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Au - Verbs
The Awkward Stage - Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights
Beat Circus - Dreamland
Bottomless Pit - Congress
Brant Bjork - Punk Rock Guilt
C.R. Avery - Magic Hour Sailor Song
Charlatans - You Cross My Path
Dawntreader - Santa Fe Stalker
Devon Williams - Carefree
Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Momofuku
For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side
Fratellis - Here We Stand
French Kicks - Swimming
The Furious Seasons - The Furious Seasons
Health / Various - Disco
I Love Math - Getting to the Point is Beside It
James - Hey Ma
Kensington Prairie - Captured In Still Life
The Lexie Mountain Boys - Sacred Vacation
The Lines - Memory Span
Local H - Twelve Angry Months
The Lodger - Life Is Sweet
Mattress - Heavy Duty
Mount Eerie - Black Wooden Ceiling Opening
My Education - Bad Vibrations
The New Odds - Cheerleader
Occasional Keepers - True North
Okay - Huggable Dust
Park Avenue Music - By Heats + Horses
Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
Politique - Politique
Puscifer - "V" Is For Viagra
Scott Kelly - The Wake
Screaming Trees - Clairvoyance
Shearwater - Rook
Sound And Fury - Sound And Fury
Steve Von Till - A Grave is a Grim Horse
Thank You - Terrible Two
Tim Fite - Fair Ain't Fair
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Uh Huh Her - Common Reaction
Various Artists - Causes 1: A Compilation to Benefit Doctors without Borders, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam America
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