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First off with the Most Serene Republic. I personally took a peak of their album with the stream provided on their website. I am not quite sure this is my style but if I can dedicate more time to it. I will definitely offer my thoughts in a blog post. MSR is from Milton, Ontario and are Broken Social Scene’s Arts & Crafts. I’m no longer able to find the stream of “Population” but owell.

Anyway an album I will definitely check out and after finding out about this band is Sunset Rubdown a band out of Montreal. Sunset Rubdown is fronted by Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade. I have gotten to really like Wolf Parade over the last few months and I saw the Handsome Furs (another member of Wolf Parade) with the Arcade Fire and I generally liked their stuff. I just downloaded a few songs from Sunset Rubdown and I almost feel it’s identical to Wolf Parade. You will be seeing a review of Random Spirit Lover.

Here is Stadiums and Shrines II by Sunset Rubdown:

They are playing a sold out show in Toronto in October and from watching this street performance I can see why:

Beirut is to release the The Flying Cup Club in October 9th and I am definitely going to check it out. I’ve been listening to Gulag Orkestar in the mean time.

If you have heard about Beirut before anyone want to recommend anything? If you haven’t watch that video!

First off when I listed this to album, it gave off a bad vibe because all the other Stars’ stuff was easy to like and I usually liked it instantly. I felt greatly disappointed as I listened to it more. Firstly there aren’t many songs for me to cling on to if I don’t like the album as a whole. The album in general seems very mellow and it was less poppy that got me so incredibly addicted from the last album. The first half I totally hated and while the second half is a bit better…I wish for the sake for me considering the Stars a band to follow a lot, that I never heard about this album.

I’m being honest here and I hate to give a bad review for bands I generally like and bands from Canada too. This just simply my opinion and this album is coming off my hard drive in which I will probably forget and look forward to new stuff in the future. This album gets a 2 out of 5 from me. Not impossible to listen to but I find myself bored more times then not and changing to the next album when I’m listening to “In Our Bedroom Before the War”. I hate giving out a bad review but yeah it’s deleted off my computer and I forgot to upload a song.

So here’s a video of Your Ex-Lover Is Dead:

Pretty much I’ve been reading a lot of the reviews of their last two albums. I still love the Stills even if Without Feathers wasn’t that good. I really hope they can find that magic that was Logic Will Break Your Heart as it feels so bad that this band isn’t as big as it is. Pretty much band members leaving is a bitch…I really wish it could be reversed. I am still willing to catch them live (that’s the plan anyway) since they are still one of my favorite bands and I hope the next release goes well!

Here’s one of the songs off Logic Will Break Your Heart and a great live performance (Of Montreal):

I sometimes don’t agree with the majority critics but this time I find that Hot Hot Heat’s Happiness Ltd. is a decent album with some you can really like. If you are a HHH fan you shouldn’t be disappointed. I’d say this album is a 4 out of 5 and worth to stay on my computer.

It’s weird when the critics on the album just because it has become more mainstream. I think this is the case here because there is nothing that yells drastic change and something you can smoothly transition to. I think I was more of a fan of this album then “Elevator”.

If there are some downsides, there are a few mediocre not worth your ears type songs but those are few and far between. This album gives too much of an “EMO” vibe though. First the title of the album and I feel like the songs could be more appropriately titled. This may have influenced people as I was ready to NOT listen to this album based on the song titles alone. Alas, I am glad I took the time to listen to this album.

Here is some related media (Harmonicas & Tambourines and Let Me in Video):

Harmonica and Tambourines by Hot Hot Heat (download):

The new album Challengers received semi-positive reviews however it is called their worst album but still good.

Challengers for me had a lot of mediocre songs with some good songs here and there. There was nothing annoying such that I couldn’t listen to it and it’s pretty pleasant to listen to actually. However it’s not at all catchy nor amazing sounding that it would receive an excellent review from me.

It’s a decent album just nothing spectacular. The top 3 songs on the alum for me are: 1. Myriad Harbour 2. Challengers 3. Mutiny, I Promise You

The rest are very “meh” with another song or so I liked and it’s getting a 3 out of 5 for me (look for stiffer reviews). This album was deleted except for the tracks I liked so yeah it didn’t have a lasting feeling for me.

Listen to Myriad Harbour(download)

If there’s only complaint about Stars. Is that it is really hard to do searches on them since Stars is in everything making it different to find pictures and other things. The Stars being a Canadian band also helps as we gotta cheer on homegrown talent. I just read some stuff online Stars’ frontman and his distaste with critics especially Pitchfork. Just know that everything

Here is Take Me to The Riot off of YouTube from In Our Bedroom After the War:

Other albums possibly worth checking out: Athelete’s Beyond the Neighborhood, PJ Harvey’s White Chalk (never really got into her stuff though), Jose Gonzales’ In Our Nature (heard some stuff by him that I liked), Iron&Wine’s Shepherd’s Dog, and Canadian band the Weakerthans. I’ll see if I can get my hands on these and hopefully you will get to see some of these reviewed!

The first time I watched this video, I was pretty stoned and it was pretty hilarious.By the way, did you know that the “S” in the Ill Scarlett logo is a sideways treble clef?

I am looking forward to some new stuff and hopefully they are good.

I am going to post the music video for Oh My God and Lily Allen’s cover of it which I also really dig.

Oh My God By the Kaiser Chiefs:

Oh My God Cover by Lily Allen(download):