My Dad Vs Yours
After Winter Must Come Spring
By Chris Whibbs

These Ottawa residents having been flying low on the post-rock radar for some time now, but hopefully this will change with this meticulously crafted album. Indeed, “crafted” is the key word as the laser-like precision by which these songs work their magic is to be commended, yet it might have the effect of feeling sanitised. Take the incredible “In My Arms We Shall Begin,” which is underwhelming at the start with its repeating guitar chords and steady drum beat, yet slowly the band unhinge until the end explodes with the requisite emotion. An addition to this full-length is electronic elements, which never dominate but only burble below the surface to provide another source of tension, which is best heard on the almost danceable “The Harder We Work…” It is important to note, though, that the deliberate nature of this music should not detract. All it means is that these people care highly about both the music and the emotions being conveyed. They don’t want to mess about and experiment, since they have a job to do. It is actually that dedication that shines through and makes this album a lovely soundtrack to both the blooming flowers and the re-emergence of people to a snow-less world. (Independent)
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The first notes on Leslie Feist’s remix and collaboration record Open Season are of soft, elegant piano, a cover of “One Evening” by cohort (and Let It Die producer) Gonzales; the next, is a spare, stripped down “un-mix” of “Inside + Out” by another collaborator, Broken Social Scenes’ Apostle of Hus ...Read More
Moneen - The Red Tree
It’s not entirely surprising, but the third full-length from Brampton, ON’s proudest sons is a work of passionate, inspired musicianship and genuine emotion, approaching the unbridled enthusiasm of Theory of Harmonial Value and easily surpassing the more pop-based songwriting of Are We Really Happy ...Read More
Rakes - Capture/Release
There is a certain contemporary stigma attached to English bands who excel in storytelling, where they’re either bred of the Libertines’ London-centric, in-the-gutter poetry or Mike Skinner’s Brummie geezer rhymes. The Rakes are as compellingly descriptive of everyday English life as the aforementio ...Read More
303s - Lines of Parallel Minds
Bang! Bang! - Decked Out
Benny Profane - Trapdoor Swing/Dumb Luck Charm
Billy and the Lost Boys - Yet Why Not Say What Happened?
Black Heart Procession - The Spell
Built to Spill - You In Reverse
Charlatans - Simpatico
Chuck Norris Experiment - The Chuck Norris Experiment
Dead Girls Ruin Everything - What a Perfect Ending
Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer?
Dirty Projectors - New Attitude EP
Dirty Rainbow - Death. I Was Sure of It
The Doers - Whatcha Doin’?
Dogme 95 - The Reagle Beagle
Dymaxions - The Dymaxions
Ermine - The Murra
Expatriate - Lovers le Strange
Fat Worm of Error - Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies
Field Music - Write Your Own History
Gary Numan - Jagged
Gear - EP
Imaad Wasif - Imaad Wasif
In Praise of Folly - Means/Ends
International Falls - The Plateau
Iron On - Oh the Romance
Jana Hunter - Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom
Jane Birkin - Fictions
Just Barelys - Top
Kind of Like Spitting - The Thrill of the Hunt
Lonely Hearts - Paper Tapes
Love Drunks - The Love Drunks
Lownote - The World Won’t Turn
Machete Avenue - The First Cuts
Mia Doi Todd - La Ninja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Nearly - Reminder
New Amsterdams - Story like a Scar
New Mexican Disaster Squad - Don’t Believe
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid
QR5 - Pharmakon
Rapider than Horsepower / Mae Shi - Don’t Ignore the Potential
Richard Jobson - The Ballad of Etiquette
Sam Roberts - Chemical City
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
Slang - Skilled Rhythm Kills
Society of Rockets - Where the Grass Grows Black
Teddy Geiger - Underage Thinking
Therapy? - One Cure Fits All
Threat - Red Dawn
Tom Verlaine - Songs and Other Things / Around
Trembling Blue Stars - Her Handwriting / Lips That Taste of Tears
Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP
Wilderness - Vessel States
Wizardzz - Hidden City of Taurmond
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