Round Two: Montréal
photos uploaded on October 6, 2008 by Andreas Sundgren
Right after Feet Night in Boston we headed north & finally met up with the veggie-powered bus in Burlington, VT (complete with awesome rat) before driving to Montréal. The border crossing went a lot better than expected, except that Canadian customs stole all of our merchandise and then sold it back to us at 40% off.
This Round Robin stop is billed as a part of Pop Montréal. The program for the event includes write-ups of most of the bands in both English & French, a surprising number of which were sarcastic/incomprehensible. Some were about movies. Here are some choice blurbs:
FUTURE ISLANDS
“These Baltimore natives bill themselves as minimalist New Wave pop, but if their MySpace band quote (’It’s coming down in sheets’) is any indication of their vibe, you’ll probably be wishing those were plastic sheets, in the best way.”
TEETH MOUNTAIN
“Ces jeunes gens du Maryland ont su construire un rock psychédélique, électronique, trance et tribal en utilisant des instruments parfois insolites et primitifs comme des scies et des mini gongs. Ils ont aussi la qualité de ne pas sentir la nécessité de se fringuer « psyché » pour en jouer. Néanmoins, vous vous frotterez les yeux toute la soirée pour tenter d’effacer les lumières kaléidoscopiques que vous imaginerez. NOTE: CONSOMMEZ DE LA DROGUE avant d’aller les voir.”
BEACH HOUSE
“La bagarre la plus troublante de ma vie n’était ni en Afghanistan, ni dans Old Boy, mais dans Starship Troopers quand le protagoniste s’en prend au nouveau Jules de son ex à coups de coude dans le sternum et – surtout – sous fond de « Fade Into You » de Mazzy Star. En plus de susciter des réactions semblables (tristesse, douleur, surprise, etc.), le duo folk Beach House vibre au même diapason musical que cette scène mémorable. Bref, à vos mouchoirs.”
DAN DEACON
“Electronica. That. Never. Stops. Dan Deacon’s Spiderman of the Rings’ hyper-attentive approach to soundstructure is paradoxically invigorating and irritating. The rhythms are often obnoxious, the looping vocals sound like screaming, yet the final product is so infectious that full-body dancing is irresistible.”
THE CREEPERS
“A Swiss academy schoolgirl becomes embroiled in an extrasensory world in which a psychotic killer lurks and she soon becomes his next target. But she learns she has a form of telekinesis that enables her to have mental communication with insects. As the villain closes in, she calls upon an army of bugs to help her defeat her enemy.”
DJ DOG DICK (misprinted as “Dock Dick”)
“Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock, the clock struck one, the mouse ran down, Hickory Dickory Dock. He owns the world’s largest turntable and spins custom-made vinyl in Baltimore like a bus driver negotiating a left turn.”
