Hello again my lovely nonexistant readership. It has been a long time since the last post as I am still getting all settled into college and whatnot. I know I should not talk about myself too much here but as no one reads this I don't care.
Tonight I was actually planning to do a massive post on a small, quietly powerful band by the name of P:ano that has for months been one of my favorite artists to watch. However, it seems my post will be requiring a lot more research as it appears they have quietly been working on new tracks and even entire albums, yet their site is largely out of date and their song links and store are both mysteriously dead. At any rate, expect some P:ano goodness in the future!
Tonight I think I will be just giving credit where credit is due and giving a tip of the hat to the awesome yet short-lived band The Unicorns. This montreal-based EmoPop band formed in 2000 and in its scant and not very prolific four-year life managed to release a few wonderful, if slightly unpolished, songs.
Not many people know exactly what happened to the Unicorns. Never having followed the band in the years when they were producing music, I heard that they had changed their name to The Islands. This is, in fact, not true. After a bit of digging, I discoved that the band broke up under mysterious and dramatic circumstances after a series of lukewarm shows, unproductive recording sessions, and clashes with fans. Thorburn and Thompson continued to collaborate together as Th' Corn Gangg, (a pop/hip-hop project) and Islands, (a pop project). However, on May 28, 2006, Jamie Thompson announced his departure from Islands.
Les Os.mp3
Despite these problems, the band produced some musical gems. One such gem is Les Os, a very upbeat sounding song that combines several different hooks and catchy melodies. It will have you singing along in no time. However, these melodic and happy overtones are undermined by the thinly veiled anguish in the vocals and the simple yet very emotionally graphic lyrics. This is by far my favorite unicorns track, although I do love how in "gut stains" they sing about a "headless body in a topless bar". it is eerily poetic. For another good Unicorns song you could always check out
Tuff Ghost.mp3, which has a real nice build to it. At times it is melodic and other points have a nice spacey melody. Jellybones.mp3 is also another well-known hit. (thanks go to EARFARM for these last two tracks... I can't garuantee they will be downloadable for long. I usually like to host songs as long as possible though)
It is late, so that is it for tonight! Enjoy the songs and I shall see you later.
Tonight I was actually planning to do a massive post on a small, quietly powerful band by the name of P:ano that has for months been one of my favorite artists to watch. However, it seems my post will be requiring a lot more research as it appears they have quietly been working on new tracks and even entire albums, yet their site is largely out of date and their song links and store are both mysteriously dead. At any rate, expect some P:ano goodness in the future!
Tonight I think I will be just giving credit where credit is due and giving a tip of the hat to the awesome yet short-lived band The Unicorns. This montreal-based EmoPop band formed in 2000 and in its scant and not very prolific four-year life managed to release a few wonderful, if slightly unpolished, songs.
Not many people know exactly what happened to the Unicorns. Never having followed the band in the years when they were producing music, I heard that they had changed their name to The Islands. This is, in fact, not true. After a bit of digging, I discoved that the band broke up under mysterious and dramatic circumstances after a series of lukewarm shows, unproductive recording sessions, and clashes with fans. Thorburn and Thompson continued to collaborate together as Th' Corn Gangg, (a pop/hip-hop project) and Islands, (a pop project). However, on May 28, 2006, Jamie Thompson announced his departure from Islands.
Les Os.mp3
Despite these problems, the band produced some musical gems. One such gem is Les Os, a very upbeat sounding song that combines several different hooks and catchy melodies. It will have you singing along in no time. However, these melodic and happy overtones are undermined by the thinly veiled anguish in the vocals and the simple yet very emotionally graphic lyrics. This is by far my favorite unicorns track, although I do love how in "gut stains" they sing about a "headless body in a topless bar". it is eerily poetic. For another good Unicorns song you could always check out
Tuff Ghost.mp3, which has a real nice build to it. At times it is melodic and other points have a nice spacey melody. Jellybones.mp3 is also another well-known hit. (thanks go to EARFARM for these last two tracks... I can't garuantee they will be downloadable for long. I usually like to host songs as long as possible though)
It is late, so that is it for tonight! Enjoy the songs and I shall see you later.
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