lightning striking itself twice

Can’t get enough spiky and pointy, but first and foremost, Canadian music from just one fresh indie band? A union seems to have formed; the first partners I knew about was Wolf Parade, and I quite enjoyed them, and hadn’t heard anything like it before. Then, I was turned onto Sunset Rubdown, and quite liked them too. And if I liked them too, well I should listen to the rest of the lead keyboard player’s bands. Swan Lake turned out to be pay dirt, and Frog Eyes not far behind. In common amongst all these bands is the waif-like voice that scratches and projects it’s way our from between the hyped-contrasted piano keys and staccato plectrum thrusts.

Now which one came first? Frog Eyes, I suppose, forging the sound that Spencer Krug would use, and then try and change on Sunset Rubdown Snake’s Got a Leg, their debut release. But then the chicken and the egg got in an argument, and I, at their side, told them to relax and that it didn’t matter who came first. I think that’s the truth for these Canadian bands. They seem to be able to handle it fine, and create well with the interconnections they’ve formed; an open relationship of the grandest kind. At the bottom of this erratic orgy, labels like Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian (not a Canadian label) are the ones getting all the pleasure.