Earworm: Heaven “Huck Finn”
October 5th, 2009
Who: Heaven
What: Enigmatic four-piece from Toronto that love their reverb and distortion to an unhealthy degree.
Sounds like: Well, shoegaze is the first thing that comes to mind. But Heaven are unusual in that unlike all those inert bands that hung out in the Scene That Celebrated Itself at the turn of the 1990s, they aren’t afraid to actually mix impassioned vocals with the swelling waves of drone.
RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Medicine, Loop, The Big Pink, Serena Maneesh
Need to know: They recently opened for brooding UK rockers White Lies at the Phoenix in Toronto and will support The Big Pink on November 29th at Lee’s Palace. They’ll also spend the early part of November touring with hip troubadour Jeremy Jay. And we can expect a 10-inch EP called Basement of Heaven from Vancouver’s Acephale Records (CFCF, Salem, Air France, Memory Tapes, Memory Cassette) in the near future.
Track: “Huck Finn” uses the ethereal guitar tones that Robin Guthrie popularized with Cocteau Twins as a teaser. But in a minute or so they step on the distortion pedal to build a magnetic bed of noise that never relents. The dual vocals give some sharp contrast with the female providing depth with an emotional turn, while the male murmurs some whispering underneath the heaving wall of sound.
Buy: Nothing at the moment.
- Cam Lindsay
Posted on Monday, October 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm by Cam and is filed under Earworm, The New Music.
