My Rating: 4.5/5

Label: Paper Bag Records
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/cfcf
CFCF first captured the music scene’s attention with remixes of the Teenagers, HEALTH, the Presets, and by winning a Crystal Castles’ “Air War” remix competition. The Montreal based DJ-producer’s debut full length album, Continent, is sure to create some noise within the electronic music scene, with his varying styles [...]

My Rating: 2/5

Label: Domino
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors
A pretty typical indie/experimental album. This album doesn’t really leave too much of an impression on me; very basic rhythms and technique, nothing too exciting.
Each track seems to simply build on another, the only track that stood out was “Useful Chamber”. This track had some more interesting rhythms and used more [...]

My Rating: 5/5

Label: Arts & Crafts
Website: http://www.arts-crafts.ca/themostserenerepublic/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/themostserenerepublic
Purchase Album: Release Date July 14 2009
I was just able to get my hands on an advance copy of this seven piece group’s most recent work, “…And The Ever Expanding Universe”, to be released on the Arts & Crafts label this coming July.
This seven piece orchestra creates some [...]

My Rating: 4/5

Label: Zarcorp
Website: http://www.lateofthepier.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lateofthepier
Purchase Album:
British group, Late of the Pier’s debut album, Black Fantasy Channel is fantastic. Their album has a nice blend of electronics and technical skill. Their instrumental track “V W” really adds to their first full length LP, this one track I can listen to forever, it is quite [...]

My Rating: 5/5

Label: XL Recordings
Website: http://www.wearefriendlyfires.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/friendlyfires
Purchase Album:
Friendly Fires’ debut, self-titled album, is, well, for lack of a better word (and my effort to find one), friendly. The album flows smoothly through the listeners ears, each track contains some really creative rhythms, instrumentals and vocals. The track “On Board” is most likely the one [...]