Tropics Of Canada

General | Nov 2006

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2006-11-06
Noise rock extraordinaire, two man band from Minnesota smears tape loops, fuzz bass, drums, desperate vocals, no-wave/prog elements even. Fans of No New York era Sonic Youth, Swans, F/i, Will To Live, Sink Manhatten, take note, swallow hard (p.s. I caught this duo opening for Burmese at the Hemlock recently….what a show!!).

1) wall of noise-rock, deeply buried vocals, swirling madness, urgent drums
2) starts sparse, noise, drum bursts, builds in dissonance, very No-New York old school noise rock
3) near prog feel in bass chords, somewhat more chill, song-like
4) slide bass trippy intro, launches into free-form spazz
5) disjunct no-wave drums, fuzz vocs strong, reminds me of ape has killed ape somehow
6) twisted, songlike, trippy and cool
7) Long track: starts very chill, creepy, builds to noise loops, all pretty restrained and dark
8) slight electro element to drums, wash/drone of noise, buried melodic vocs

Recent airplay

Crucial Cat
Brownian MotionJan 21, 2009
Monkey Fuck It
Brownian MotionDec 30, 2006
Monkey Fuck It
Brownian MotionDec 22, 2006
Veto, Mmaaml Hall
Crucial Cat
Municipal WastrelNov 14, 2006
Side Stitch
Cognitive OverloadNov 08, 2006

Charting

2006-11-05 — 2007-01-07
Week EndingAirplays
Dec 31 1
Dec 24 1
Nov 19 2
Nov 12 2

Track listing

1. Crucial Cat
2. Orange Is The New Black
3. Mmaaml Hall
4. Veto
5. 300
6. Monkey Fuck It
7. College Pearl White Trouble Lights
8. Side Stitch