The scene was set in a Montreal park on St-Jean Baptiste weekend, Quebec’s national holiday, June 2007. We were hanging out in the park, hiding our beers from the cops, eating grapes and nacho chips. Enter Erik Virtanen with guitar case in hand. He joined us on the picnic blanket that had become rumpled over [...]
Montreal’s the Darling DeMaes posted a couple pre-mastered sound-bytes from their upcoming album on their myspace (www.myspace.com/thedarlingdemaes).
The F.A.C.T.O.R-supported album was recorded and mixed across the train tracks at Mountain City by Joseph Donovan (The Dears, Sam Roberts) and Adrian Popovich (Tricky Woo, Mongrels).
In late August, the demaes head down to Toronto to master the record [...]