Braids (usually stylized as BRAIDS) is an art rock band from Calgary, Alberta and presently based in Montreal, Quebec. Braids consists of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith. The band members met at a young age and began collaborating in high school. Their debut album Native Speaker was released on January 18, 2011 in Canada and the United States to generally positive reviews. On June 16, 2011, the album was named as a longlisted nominee (one of 40) for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize. On July 6, the album was named as a shortlisted (one of 10) nominee for the 2011 award.
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"Red Velvet Snow Ball is a haunting and charming sophomore effort by Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, the guys who make up L.A.-based Pepper Rabbit. The band first presented its sound as poppy, upbeat and rock-edged on its debut album, Beauregard, but on Red Velvet Snow Ball, the group drops the rock and dips into experimental sounds, making this a calmer and dreamy endeavor.
“Lake House” opens the album with an ambient melody coupled with a militaristic drum beat. It’s a slower track with many intertwined elements that get more tangled as the song sinks into a murky and static intonation. You enter a more straightforward world of psychedelic pop on “Rose Mary Stretch,” in which you might detect hints of Rogue Wave or Fleet Foxes, while “The Annexation Of Puerto Rico” combines joyful layers of experimental instruments with a peaceful melody.
The album’s first single, “Murder Room,” has a hooking chorus paired with resilient piano and synth melodies. It is a decent display of what the band is capable of, but it doesn’t quite reflect the instrumental achievements shown on the rest of the album. Over the course of Red Velvet Snow Ball, the two-man band augments and varies its sound by incorporating 11 instruments. It took a lot of experimenting, jamming and digression from its old songwriting techniques for Pepper Rabbit to produce such an enjoyable album." - Sasha Patpatia / CMJ
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"Painted Palms recently turned heads with a killer remix of Lord Huron's "Mighty" (download here), and some of those turning-heads obviously belonged to Secretly Candian. The Indiana-based indie institution inked Painted Palms, offering an immediate digital release and June 21 physical pressing for the band's previously-self-released Canopy EP.
Painted Palms are a pair of cousins from Louisiana recently relocated to the Bay Area. They're a production duo turned five-piece live-band, and their sound is totally 2011 without owing one singular debt to anything.
There's an undeniable post-Panda Bear spirit in the rippling electronics, subverted samples, and sentimental crooning (plus "Water Hymn" sounds like an Animal Collective track title). And the sun-flecked, sea-splattered, rising-and-falling tides of their sound give off vibes of Swedish 'Balearic' acts like Studio and Pacific!, and, of course, the plunderous eternal summers of chillwave.
But the Canopy EP is, if not entirely its own thing, at least good enough to dissuade any doubters. The five-song set comes loaded with pop-songs (listen via their Bandcamp below), and it's the insistent melodies and bubbling harmonies of the duo that signal them as ones to watch. " - Anthony Carew / About.com
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