Pop Montreal Preview: Sunparlour Players + Forest City Lovers + Echoes Still Singing Limbs
by Solar Dog Records+++++
This three-piece folk rock plays a dizzying symphony of glockenspiel, drums, banjos, bells, and whistles. Their album Hymns For The Happy is folk rock that at times sounds influenced by Tom Waits. But the band sites their moms, dads, and national parks as influences. It serves to reason that this band is the progeny of Tom Waits and a national park. Excellent.
Forest City Lovers sing about being awkward in a very natural way. It made me realise that awkward is sort of the new – well you know. Has a generation of indie rockers slowly been aestheticising the state of being uncomfortable? And if so, what does it mean?
www.myspace.com/forestcitylovers
Nick Kuepfer of AIDS Wolf and One Candle Power brings us this experimental murmur and shuffle with a name that is almost onomatopoeic. Like the music, Echoes Still Singing Limbs evokes aching acoustic guitar with glitchy strands of sampled random noise and snippets of clipped percussion.
Filed under: Blog
Published on: October 4th, 2008
Author: Solar Dog Records
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