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New Music Video: “Flags of Convenience” - Mounties

#Music #Music Video #Video #YouTube #Mounties #Canadian Music #Flags of Convenience #mounties band #Heavy Meta #Steve Bays #Hawksley Workman #Ryan Dahle #Light Organ Records

Ryan Dahle, 'Irrational Anthems' CD (Fontana North)

Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 3:12pm (full listen)

Having been a huge fan of his work in both Age of Electric and Limblifter, I was very curious to hear a solo album, but for some reason it took me years to finally pop this on, and I don't even entirely recall where I got it. Nevertheless, it's a highly engaging listen: RD is a thoroughbred studio hound - this can be evidenced anywhere from the obvious fascination with studio-based effects (tape speeds, tricky editing, and a kind of tendency, especially on 'Bellaclava' to "pull back the curtain" on the studio process) that peeked through on the two killer LL records of the 90s, to his present-day Instagram account, which is largely pictures of a beautiful island studio filled with sick, often rare gear - and that makes for an insanely detailed listen, the songs chock full of brazen mix moves, crazy edits and FX-work (especially on the drums, which are largely played by his brother Kurt, a true legend of Canadian rock drummers: I once saw him chug multiple bottles of wine and chain-smoke through an entire LL set, stick-twirling the whole time and never missing a beat), unexpectedly cool panning choices, subtly unusual instrumentation, and a general kind of "art rock" vibe, much more so than on anything else I've heard from him. My only quibble would be that, despite the amazing plethora of ideas and genuinely cool production on display, some of the songs themselves are not particularly memorable, although this could be partially because he seems to be at times writing authentically *different* types of pop/rock songs, in terms of their structure and melodic trajectories, and in that case perhaps should be considered part of the "art rock" appeal; who knows, it's a hell of a listen either way.

#ryan dahle #irrational anthems #fontana north #Limblifter #age of electric #kurt dahle

Loving this lofi gem from Nigel Young out of Vancouver.

This feels like quite the wholesome bedroom recording, where the bedroom is actually an oversized livingroom well equipped but used in the right way to steer the aesthetics to safe harbour.

The whole thing was written, mixed and performed by Nigel himself - hailing from Vancouver based acts such as The Intelligence Service and RAG.

The track was mastered by Ryan Dahle from the band Limblifter & video done by Alex Theodoropulos who has previously done work for Thee Oh Sees.

Track can also be found on our spotify playlist here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0cgvx8cRMUii4ZSNkdennc?si=33f04ae745e34ac1

#Nigel Young #Treefall Plaza #Vancouver #RAG #Ryan Dahle #Thee of Sees

WR191: Limblifter

If you're a regular listener to this podcast, you may have heard an episode we did earlier this year with Dwayne Larson, a Winnipeg concert photographer who also blogs about music on It's A Music Thing. Dwayne does a lot of great interviews with touring bands, so we're teaming up with him to present some of those on our podcast, and hopefully Dwayne will be involved in some regular episodes and other Witchpolice projects in future.

To kick off his contributions to the podcast, here's an interview he did with Ryan Dahle of Limblifter when they were in town for a show at the Handsome Daughter last month. They talk about Limblifter's new album, the band's longevity, Ryan's other projects, like Age of Electric and Mounties ...and a lot more. Listen to our program on Sundays at midnight on 101.5 UMFM (streaming on umfm.com if you ain’t here) or download/stream any previous episodes from the archives, free: http://www.witchpolice.com. We’re also doing a second Big Mix-Up show Aug. 29 at the Park Theatre!