Dec 28, 2017
To paint your own picture, you have to make the world your canvas....
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To paint your own picture, you have to make the world your canvas....
Two fantastic bands sharing the spotlight on this split mix from Apes Tapes.
Real and Imagined
Your Canvas is the carefully molded child of Jessy Boudreaux. Coming from a veritable background of melting house shows with her electric guitar and sly croon, the latest piece from Your Canvas, Real and Imagined, explodes with beautiful construction that I honestly didn't see coming. Yes, yes, I've always liked Your Canvas, and they've gotten better and better since they first floated into my life as just-Jessy, then Jessy and Marc Swart, and then the invaluable addition of Jeremy O Connell. But their latest release evoked such a reaction from me that I have to reiterate it here in its genuine simplicity: HOLY SHIT.
Not only does Real and Imagined veer slightly away from the hauntingly catchy sound that I may have defined Your Canvas as before, but it swarms with new intricacies, somehow bridging composition between bright-and-poppy and at-times guttural sincerity while still throttling the soaring old haunt that swims from Jessy's voice. This album will take you everywhere from the dance floor to the bedroom by the hint of a jazz whisper at the edge of the softest guitar solo that's walking coolly down the street holding hands with the mellow perk of warming keys.
Casting off the tendency of many bold-voiced-girl-fronted bands, Real and Imagined calls Marc and Jeremy to the vocal foreground on a handful of tracks (one of which is in a close race with "Art" as my favourite song of the album). This long-awaited full length shows an absolute progression as stark as sunrise on the clearest day of the year, and it's just as fulfilling.
July 21 marks the official release date, replete with a show at Holocene with Yours and Gratitillium. If you can't wait till then (and you shouldn't!) Your Canvas is playing tonight for free at Mississippi Studios with Great Wilderness and Youth.
Street Lights
Art
Your Canvas - Are You Scared?
Check out this Portland band here! - http://weareyourcanvas.tumblr.com/
They have an album releasing in July :)