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Cansecos
The Cansecos
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
2. In Bloom - The Cansecos, Jones
3. Faster Than You Go
4. The Shore - The Cansecos, Jones
5. This Small Disaster
6. This Girl and This Boy - The Cansecos, Jones
7. What It Was You Said
8. A Common State of Being
9. Blue Whale
10. Another Ordinary Day
11. Sawtooth
12. Stop, Breathe, Repeat

CD Details

All Artists: Cansecos
Title: The Cansecos
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Upper Class Records/Darla
Release Date: 3/5/2005
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 774505023726

Synopsis

Album Description

The Cansecos music brings a mix of programmed beats, heavy bass, folktronica-like production and indie rock/pop songsmanship all together on their debut release. Like labelmates the Russian Futurists, the Cansecos also have a heavy Brian Wilsonee vibe to their sound, yet the delivery here is slightly more skewered. This growing Toronto breed of home-recorded underground pop-based music has seen previous successes by the likes of aforementioned Russian Futurists, Manitoba, and Girls Are Short and while the community of hip-hop in the T-dot would like to think they've got the bling-bling game locked in, it seems Toronto is becoming more well-known for its artists' lack of recording funds being the catalyst for their imaginative recordings. Upper Class.

CD Reviews

There are fires in the hills of northern Quebec

Jellybones | On Tour | 05/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"How did this album take so long to get released this side of the Molson line? Cripes, I think Toronto is trying to hog all the good bands eh? Well, this album will probably be on my "best of" list this year, despite the fact the release is actually been out a while (Its only become available on Amazon recently). This band is really kinda in a category by itself for me ( or alone with their label mates the Russian Futurists ), mixing hip-pop, programmed danceable beats, but after that its all delivered reverbed indie vocals, restrained almost to the point of being monotone. If this combination sounds odd, well it is, but it works well. With songs that run the gamut from almost sound like they are old rave material (check out the drum breakdowns on "Are You Lonesome?"), to poppy synth/sample music, that is like the lightweight bands of old that are not hardcore enough to be `real' hip-hop, maybe like PM Dawn or somethin' (check out "In Bloom"). The best tracks are probably "Faster Than You Go" or "What It Was You Said", or even the glitch trippy lament "This Small Disaster". Though I'm kinda partial to "Blue Whale"... I mean come on, who else could write the phat beats then spread lyrics about the death of a sea mammal and the effects on the communities built around it ("Cutting through the hide of the world's greatest beast / gave our tribes an early feast / we spat and drank more wine")?"