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August 13, 2024July 21, 2024

EP Review :: Hazel Fog :: Hazel Fog

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by maggie astrid clark

Aside from my partner and a handful of friends with impeccable taste, one of my go-to sources for locating new music is Cam Scott’s UMFM program “Radio State.” In March, this was how I first encountered the ambient drone stylings of Hazel Fog. After some digging—which is what I like to call “doing a cursory Google search”—I found that they’d released a self-titled two-song EP on Bandcamp on February 6, 2024, uploaded to the page of local label Makade Star. I’m always on the lookout for things obscure, mysterious, dissonant, and unsettling, so I was hooked immediately.

December 23, 2013

Lukewarm – Out of the Womb, Onto the Hook

Lukewarm is brand new to the Winnipeg music scene – at this point, as I write in mid-November, they’ve only played a couple shows: one in a basement deep in the West End, and one on an opening slot at Union Sound Hall. Continue reading “Lukewarm – Out of the Womb, Onto the Hook”

December 17, 2013

Glass Random – Tell Them About the Moon

Sometime in October, Winnipeg-based electro-shoegazer Glass Random quietly released a collection of songs called Tell Them About The Moon. Continue reading “Glass Random – Tell Them About the Moon”

June 4, 2013

PLAGUE/ FLASH OUT – split cassette

When I went to see UK crust legends DOOM play the Negative Space, I didn’t know how many surprises that night would hold for me. Continue reading “PLAGUE/ FLASH OUT – split cassette”

May 15, 2012

Krang – Choke Hits

This little three tune offering from Edmonton’s Krang is just about right. Continue reading “Krang – Choke Hits”

May 8, 2012

Laura Warholic – What Comes Before the Word??

Laura Warholic is Merv Glisten of Angels in America. Continue reading

March 13, 2012

The Cats’ Orchestra – Coffee Killer

Coffee Killer collects a dozen songs by Nicholay Syrov, experimental musician and poet based in Moscow. Continue reading “The Cats’ Orchestra – Coffee Killer”

September 27, 2011

White Dog Family Band – Escape the Mystery II

After semi-voluntarily taking myself through the horrifying experience of Resistance, White Dog’s last tape, this is assuredly a cheerier time, with Chris Jaax recruiting his wife and son to comprise the White Dog Family Band. The synths drone and are arguably sci-fi. The ricochets of voices get wrapped up in the lurching machine of the drone. The tape moves from one atmosphere quickly to the next—though this is all in the same galaxy—with our space pilot Magnus Jaax yelling unintelligible orders and singing what would sound like madness, if it were coming from anyone but a seven-year-old or Damo Suzuki. There’s plenty of slug and chug that battles for the rest of side A—an immense trip. Side B is filled with a number of the same samples and sounds, but rearranged—like watching this space trip over again, but from a different porthole, with the wisdom of Lee Perry chiming in. This is definitely one of Prairie Fire Tapes’ most accessible releases, if you’re ever looking to escape the all-too-usual realms of music. (Prairie Fire Tapes, prairiefiretapes.com) Taylor Burgess