I’ve pretty much known all week that I’d be following up my Atlas Sound post with one about Little Girls, but I wasn’t sure (and still am not) about what kind of angle I was going to take on it. Back in June I was totally digging the sonic sound collisions Josh McIntyre was posting [...]
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Nothing surprises me anymore. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that was passed for magnificence one year can be reduced to muck the next. Conversely, that which at one point didn’t even illicit a yawn let alone any kind of positive reaction can get me jumping up and down in [...]
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Things around here have been pretty messed up lately, thanks to the giant mess that DreamHost put me in last week when they pulled my plug (and not in that good way). It feels like the groove I was getting into all summer crumpled like a greasy sheet of tin foil. It was the weirdest [...]
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I’ve been kind of obsessed with some “big sounding” music lately, thanks in no small part to my continued infatuation with the TV show Glee. I thought that–based on descriptors alone–Toronto’s Everything All The Time would kind of sound like a school choir (quartet of vocal harmonies, cramming everything but the kitchen sink in, blah [...]
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My plan this morning was to sit down and write a couple of posts for later in the week, but I was shocked to find news in my Facebook feed (finally it proves some use) that Morrissey collapsed one song into his set at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon, southwest England. Reports suggest that [...]
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If you've spent any significant time 'round these parts, you'd know I'm fond of a certain trans-sexual folk/country singer from Calgary by the name of Rae Spoon. Bryan from Herohill tipped me off to a fantastic collaboration Spoon has done with multi-media artist Alexandre Decoupigny that blends Spoon's folk sounds with a more European back [...]
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I don’t know why I never really bothered paying any attention to You Say Party! We Say Die! before now, but it could have to do with that ridiculous sounding name, or the fact that they were described to me as “dance punk”, a term that I have come to loathe as much as “alterna-pop”. [...]
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I had the opportunity to hear Music For Men, the new LP from Gossip a few months ago, well in advance of its release this week. At the time, it didn’t make much of an impression on me as I thought it might. It was a pretty decent album, actually, and it surprised me how [...]
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Awhile back I came to the realization that I had never posted about Sufjan Stevens, mostly due to the fact that I started QBiM well after the broohaha surrounding Illinois had died down. It was sort of a badge of honour for me, that I didn’t publicly fall all over myself praising him or the [...]
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Canadians are familiar with the ongoing joke about Americans who ask Canadians they meet if they know their friend/cousin/college sweetheart who lives/moved/was exiled to Canada, assuming every Canadian knows everyone else living in the country. Remembering how many times I’ve been asked if I know Bob/Earl/Jean-Pierre who lives in Toronto/Montreal/Burnaby, I got a chuckle out [...]
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QBiM has been out of commission for a few days, but certainly not long enough to rust out my posting gears. Still, this post has been a bit of a struggle, going through revision after revision. I think the reason is not that I haven’t been writing posts for a week, but that I haven’t [...]
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It’s been a long, looong 3 days for me, but it looks like QuickBeforeItMelts.com is back and unharmed. Thank you to all those who sent messages of love and support, and thank you to those readers who had never contacted me before–it’s always great to hear from people who enjoy QBiM, to know that it’s [...]
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I don’t know exactly how I feel about Giant Hand yet, but I’ve only given Coming Home a couple of listens so far, and at the very least, I’m compelled to write about the band, which is essentially Ottawa native Kirk Ramsay. In the span of about a year, Ramsay went from picking up a [...]
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I know Where The Wild Things Are, the seminal children’s classic by Maurice Sendak, but only from a distance. I can still picture it on the shelf of my school’s library, and in the hands of my classmates, sometimes tucked under their arm, in a clasp of love and possession. I think they all must [...]
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I like the idea of a gift that keeps on giving, and Hamilton’s The Rest are about to give their fans just that. Just as the band have secured a UK deal for their lovely album, Everyone All At Once, they’re preparing to release a new EP, The Cried Wolf Book, that will be accompanied [...]
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How long have you been reading QBiM? Do any of you remember when I used to do the 4 For the Weekend posts, and have 4 songs, sometimes even give the four albums the songs were from away? It’s been awhile since I had one of those posts, and they might turn up again at [...]
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I think the last time I wrote about a TV show was back on Valentine’s Day, when I raved about United States of Tara and the joys of PVRing (for the record: can’t wait until the start of season two, and love that Toni Colette won an Emmy for it). I don;t know if I’m [...]
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I liked Lust Lust Lust enough to change my mind about The Raveonettes. Prior to their 2007 release, I found the Danish duo to be a rotating one-trick pony, with too many angles and concepts but not enough tunes. Come on now, an album all in B flat major? That’s not exactly broadening your horizons, [...]
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Last week I hastily put together the briefest of post on the new LP by Montreal’s Islands, and promised to come back to it with greater analysis this week. Let’s just say I’m keeping at least half my promise: this is a post dedicated to Vapours, their third album, but how deep the analysis actually [...]
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If anyone was going to be susceptible to the sophomore LP slump it was Vampire Weekend: too much attention too soon in their career; a debut album that contained many songs that had been around for awhile and were already familiar to fans; the weight of expectation and anticipation building for over a year now; [...]
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