The Beta BandThe Beta Band and To You Alone/Sequinsizer EP
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Though dismissed by the group themselves as "f*cking awful" and "the worst record made this year," the Beta Band's self-titled album otherwise defies simple criticism -- seemingly infinite in its sonic complexities, it's an album of remarkable density and detail, a brashly schizophrenic freak-out which weaves its way throughout the history of rock & roll. Pop, blues, folk, psychedelia, hip-hop -- they're all here, sometimes even colliding within the same song; the disc somehow sounds almost completely different with each successive listen, consistently revealing new layers and possibilities. It all constantly runs the risk of collapsing into complete self-indulgence, but in its way the Beta Band's genius is their wanton disregard for niceties like verses, choruses, and melodies; rejecting musical theory in favor of the chaos theory, the album's neither a masterpiece nor a mess, but both.
In-Flight Safety - The Coast is Clearhttp://inflightsafety.ca/new/index.phphttp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gont9z7hmf4
Take U2 and Coldplay’s melodic sensibility, Doves’ uplifting drive, the atmosphere of Stars and you have The Coast is Clear, the long-awaited follow-up to their critically acclaimed Vacation Land EP and a record that should catapult In-Flight Safety past its east coast stomping grounds and into national consciousness. One thing is clear: the sound of the nicest band based in Halifax has matured over the course of the two years of cross-country trekking it took to write, record and produce its first full-length. The arrangements are superb, the playing is professional and the choruses are radio friendly, especially the title track, “Surround” and “Letting Go.” It’s not a perfect record, but as far as debuts go, it’s one of the strongest Halifax has seen in awhile.
—Johnston Farrow
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabshttp://twohourstraffic.com/albums.htmhttp://www.mediafire.com/?jlmkob3vsyv
it's hard to imagine an album more perfectly suited to that purpose. This is song after song after song of catchy, upbeat pop songs, the kind that sound perfect when you're blasting them from a car radio with the windows down, or when you're sitting on a beach soaking up rays, or when you're enjoying a relaxing long weekend in the country. Eleven songs, eleven anthems; East Coast-flavoured pop doesn't get any better than this, and I say that as someone who's not even a huge fan of that sound. But one listen to tracks like "Stuck For The Summer" or "Backseat Sweetheart", and I'm already trying to figure out how high in the Top 10 this album will go when I sit down in six months to figure out my favourite albums of 2007. Little Jabs is a great album, and regardless of your feelings towards Sloan, Joel Plaskett and their ilk, if you like catchy pop, you owe it to yourself to check this out.