The album War of the Wakening Phantoms is a brilliant recording of jangle, psychedelia and colorful melodies: reminiscent of a psychedelic-ized Squeeze backed by The Clash. Their fantastic song structure would surely make the guys in Teardrop Explodes and Echo and The Bunnymen gush with pride. The band cites many influences affecting the sonic textures of A New Devotion: Pink Floyd, Love, CSNY, John Barry, Air, Blur, the Kinks and Curtis Mayfield. Trevor adds: "We wanted to keep the R&B grooves and rich ha...   [ read more ]

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Montreal's The High Dials have unleashed more of their neo-psychedelic pop on their new independently released album Moon Country. The album was produced by Joseph Donovan (Sam Roberts, The Dears) and was recorded in a stone cottage in Ireland and the band's hometown. Moon Country will simulate a vinyl LP by placing silence between "Seagull Blues" and "Open Up The Gates" to split the record into two "sides." "We like having silence between two pieces of music, the way it used to be on LPs," the band wrote ...   [ read more ]

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From The High Dials' acclaimed album "A New Devotion" comes the "Fields in Glass" EP, an aural workout of remixes, outtakes, and previously unreleased tracks. The EP includes three new remixes of "Field in Glass" and the album version of "Things Are Getting Better," plus two new tracks -- the remarkable "The House Where Trouble Sleeps" and the psych-rock stomp "City Rivers." The High Dials continue to mix jangle, psychedelia, and colorful melodies, reminiscent of a psychedelicized Squeeze backed by The Who.

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