#Montreal Punk

[mywifeleftme]

37: Ultrathin // Ultrathin

Ultrathin Ultrathin 2014, Bruised Tongue (Bandcamp)

The handwritten sticker on the plastic sleeve that came with my copy reads:

Ultrathin $10 Proto, psych punk from Montreal. Ultra cool.

Seconded! Ultrathin were a three piece that sounded like a rawer Ty Segall Band who hit for the cycle in the early ‘10s with a 7”, a split, an EP, and an LP before going silent. Their self-titled full-length is loud as hell, up there with a dollar bin Slade live record I picked up a few years back in terms of stuff that makes me feel like I’m bugging the neighbours no matter what the volume knob says. (Oddly, it sounds much better to me on vinyl than the digital version on Bandcamp does, and I’m not normally the kind of psycho who believes wax makes much difference.) The recording job by Marc Montanchez is excellent, full-bodied and never so pitchy you fear tinnitus, though it benefits from cranking the bass on your system. It feels like being with a killer band in the rehearsal studio (except the vocals sound good). “I Wanna Know” has a spacy riff so catchy it ends the only way possible: with the band sonically hammering a nail into the song so they won’t go right on playing it into infinity. On the other end of the album, Ultrathin indulge themselves on “In My Mind,” a melted Segall-worthy stomper with thrilling shredding from guitarist Shaun Anderson.

This is one of the two records I have from Ottawa’s cult fav label Bruised Tongue. At one time their roster included most of Ottawa’s best young bands, including The Yips, New Swears, and the sorely missed Roberta Bondar, a shoulda-been mainstay of the noise rock scene. (BT was also home to one of my favourite artist/title combos, Fucked Corpse’s Led Zeppelin Four.) Bruised Tongue were predominantly a cassette label, and their LP releases were very DIY affairs, with the album art neatly glued onto a folded white cardstock sleeve. It works perfectly well, but the package is too thin to have a spine per se, which means their records tend to hide away on the shelf. I was glad to reintroduce myself to this one—hopefully we see more Bruised Tongue (and Ultrathin too, while I’m at it) releases in the future. Other than selling some pins and prints here and there, the label’s been too quiet by far since 2017.

37/365

[cjlothecastle]

flightless roots or rootless flights?

lots and lots of local (mostly) and hardcore (mostly) songs for uhh idk the bi monthly audit by the canadian broadcasting bureaucrats ??

anyway these bands are really really cool

aired on july 12th 2024 on CJLO 1690 AM

listen to full episode here ;; full playlist here

looped - crossed wires rot - mulch a man invented shoelaces - birds of prrrey aigle noir ou la rockette (they/them gone wild) - the fake friends xxx covered - sour key rehash - last waltzon scurvy - barnacle  everything or nothing - roach trace your love - hanako denim belt - necklace i’m going to be a princess - twine ballcourt (forever) - so perfect cheese & crackers - deja voodoo get in my van - whoredrobe xxx wine, weed, and whisky - alien boys sheela na gig - kingdom of birds  all was beauty here - piss for pumpkin boy destroyer - poolgirl 1000 ways to die - dishpit

[ladycharles]

My new single Child of the Night is out now! (streaming embed below video)

It's a wild bit of proggy indie disco for fans of Of Montreal, MGMT, David Bowie, Franz Ferdinand, Late of the Pier and more

Hope you enjoy 💖💖💖

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[vesselmakesthings]

skirt + belt bag + ass flap + gus the fuggler

the neat patches were by the bbg (t4t, anarchy flower, days n daze, protect the unloved, saw, , paw, pansy)

last update before i go see subhumans!

[aeolianblues]

It's Friday, so I'm back working drive-thru at the Song-to-go delivery window! Come collect your weekly listen of songs to carry with you on your scroll!

If you're new, firstly, hi! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll presenting you with new, lesser-known songs as a takeaway musical meal.

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

[last week’s poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and more]

I started last week's poll a couple of days late, so that's still open right now (as all song polls are technically 'open' to being discovered, you can still reblog them, you just can't vote but I feel like most people reblog and tell me what they like anyway! Which I love :) )

Happy scrolling! This week, I've picked out a French (Montreal) album I've been obsessed with anticipating winter vibes, some classic rock 'n' roll, beauuuutiful Welsh pop harmonies, some London Asian fusion pop, futuristic electrofunk and because it's me, always some weirdo-post punk :)

Liked anything? Let me know in the tags! Tell your friends! Come back next week!

Happy listening!

[stylized-corpse]

Tonight!

[koko-online]

o kute e musi pona :)

[mistwalker-official]

I recorded all the bass to my new record only to find out that the bass was slightly out of tune after all was said and done. No matter. The bass has now all been re-recorded with Erin’s bass, which is objectively better than my own, anyways. Next up, vocals!

[liedtothefbi]

A photo dump from my amazing night at A3!!

Matt skiba smiled at me multiple times because i got barricade and when i did a little “🫶” during the show he did one back and winked at me!!! I almost fainted honestly, hoping someone on youtube has a clip because I unfortunately don’t. We also waved at eachother like goofballs during the show. :)) (also managed to snag a setlist and drumstick from Atom!)

[mywifeleftme]

223: Crimes // Crimes

Crimes Crimes 2013, Crooked Punx Recordz

You know what you’re in for 45 seconds into opening track “Tension” when the singer starts trying to make a chorus happen apparently without the consent of the relentlessly single-minded guitarist (himself). Of course, you should’ve already known what you were in for when you tore open the free LP you got as a throw-in at the punk flea market and saw the following credits:

Maniks: screams of agony and guitar shredder Shoeshiner: beatdown bass and howls of pride Markus: Nuclear drum blasts of apocalypse warfare

I fully (projecting for the people in the back of the Legion basement) endorse the existence of hardcore punk as a live experience, even this kind of droning thwapthwapthwapthwapthwap brand of tough guy hardcore. Our communities need places to wild out in the most primitive fashion, and hardcore shows are one of the few spaces where the working class and the overeducated wings of the Left mix. With that said, there was no need to record this band. Agony screamer Maniks (as of 2023, now a rapper who looks like he took a wrong turn at Crazy Town) has one of those scratchy yowls that reminds you of a goblin being forced down a garburator (an event we have all overheard surely), the bass basses, the guitar goes real fast but the drums work against it by jamming so many beats into each measure that the songs strobe more than they speed. We call prog masturbatory because it’s self-indulgent, but an album like Crimes mimics the form of masturbating with a dick more closely: some athleticism in the wrist, a blur of repetitive motion and smacking sounds, satisfying for the practitioner… but ultimately something that needs a little zhuzh to be an enjoyable spectacle for the observer.

223/365

[cjlothecastle]

vibrating, not from the cold

it's january, 26th, strike week is next week, and we're feeling manic about it. its cold, but thats not whats making me shake. + live giveaway for pair of IDLES tix. caller too shy to say hi </3

full episode here ;;;; full playlist here

meta angel - fka twigs oral - bjork, rosalia person (angel mix) - petal supply 4 ÆM - grimes xxx intro - twine needlessly wild - sleater-kinney i thought you’d change - hotline TNT dancer - IDLES, lcd soundsystem snooze you lose - hot garbage hertz - amyl and the sniffers delete delete delete - NOBRO sucker - peaches know your rights - the clash xxxx hpv - slut island dance yrself clean - lcd soundsystem

[ladycharles]

Child of the Night comes out Friday, here's another peek. Presave it below* and you will get the bonus EP when the email list goes live 💖💖💖

*non spotify users will absolutely be able to sign up too once the website is ready

[tired-old-soul]

I didn't just live

I was alive

[stickto-otherartists]

Camille Léon and her band captured by Colin Medley in Montréal || 09.27.23

[aeolianblues]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

Okay I’m late this week and it’s not Friday, but I’m sitting and waiting for my own takeout to-go, so I figured it’s time for me to serve up this week’s Song-To-Go!

The concept: Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll.

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your trip!

[last week’s poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and more. Fun fact, this series has now had over 45 songs. All that in a month?! You're joking if you tell me there isn't enough good new music out there ;) ]

This week's picks: Canadian indie pop (something Canada excels at), arty British post punk with horn and horniness intact, Welsh language alt rock, something Strokesy, rave from the Montreal underground and some grungy American alt rock.

This poll came a few days late, so expect it to overlap some with this Friday's song poll for the following week: I'm going to stick with the new music Friday thing. Still, pass it along, tell your friends, reblog it and tell me what your liked!

[update: by the time drafting this was done I was no longer stood before a takeaway shop. God, that was three days ago.]