Electronic indie duo NOIA has been hard at work warping musical genres on its inaugural LP, Maybe Forever, which made its debut today! Part dance-rock, part electro-pop, with flashes of everything from new wave to EBM, trance to post-punk, techno to anthemic rock, this introductory album is a bold statement of intent from one of Montreal’s brightest emerging outfits.
A DIY album in the truest sense, Maybe Forever was composed, performed and recorded entirely by bandmates Eduardo Noya Schreus and Ashley Long themselves. Utilizing analog hardware and old-school techniques, they craftily concocted 8 original tracks that Latin Grammy-winning producer and mixer Reuven Amiel—who invited them to his Avenue of Sound studio in Miami—rounded out by helping to sculpt a snappy signature sound.
The result is a swaggering piece of work that comes to life with rippling, pulsating synths and a pounding drum track, yet underlying each song is a cinematic quality that showcases Eduardo’s experience as an award-winning composer of ambient, meditative soundscapes for the film and television industry (Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Laurence Anyways, TV series Versailles.)
An assortment of dreamy escapism with hidden depths, Maybe Forever is a fusion of bright, crystalline guitar parts and auroral electronic melodies, with tinges of darker, more sinister sounds driven by beats that are commanding, uncompromising, and bound to keep dance floors bouncing.
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Good day. Right now, q is discussing the use of “feckless cunt”.
Is this finally the age of the word cunt becoming sayable in North America? Some British have (much?) less of a problem with it, more or less same with the Aussies (I think), and don’t get me wrong, it is BABOOM insulting! But it’s been *streng verboten* forever, on this continent.
I can’t help wondering why any slang term for female genitalia is seen as being worse than those for their male counterpart
Also on q today, the block party comes from Tsibili, Georgia (guy’s name escapes me). Techno.
Garf, I think that the strong interdict in N. America has to do with “Protestant” views on sex. Indeed, in France, it’s a hands-down favourite that’s spawned many variations. (But then, that’s the Francists, Quebecers don’t use it except by imitation or adoption (meaning ‘con’ is not native here).
Oh, and garfield, it’s not a slang term, it’s a time-honoured, ‘real’ English word (well, as real as it gets). You know, all those simple, one-syllable words. Anyway, ‘cunt’ is a proper word, after a fashion. The two first parags of the wiki explain a lot. (The last sentence of parag 1 made me laugh.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt
Also on q, brilliant interview with Coeur de Pirate, but only because she’s very open, honest and forthcoming.
Hi All, just read last friday’s blog, Radio2 has definitely become CBC Music, they’ve been saying it on air for awhile now, maybe a couple months? Also I have it on good authority that it will be changed to some thing else very soon, likely before the end of the year. So there will be no more CBC Music, not sure I will mourn that.
@Wynzie, you killed the blog!
Thanks for the info though.
NOIA – not a big thence fan but giving it a try.
So far I can say that I do not like the graphic for their first song …
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Thanks for the confirmation Wynnsie. I suspected as much. The bitter feelings CBC Music brings up in me are strong, I can imagine it would bring some strong feelings even more for you.
I am not a fan of the word cunt. Probably because of how it gets used mostly but it is such a harsh word.
I only have a day left to decide on my 5 picks for Polaris, so my listening is going to that. I will have to check out NOIA another day.
@darbar I have really been enjoying the Polaris long list you put together.
I did not like the Charlotte Day Wilson as much as I thought I did but I did like the Suuns more than I thought so there is some balance there I suppose. I knew I liked the Zaki album but forgot about it … then there is Bonjay as well Jean-Michel Blais; you have your work cut out for you durbar!!
Darbar, I think that that word has kept its punch because it doesn’t get used much. If it were used more — God forbid — it would probably lose some of it. Also, I think it’s — funny — less disrespectful, if more impactful, than bitch and hoe, and has the advantage of being perfectly suitable for a man.
I can’t believe I’m arguing ‘for’…
Also, should Samantha Bee have used “feckless”??? ;-s)
Indeed morgana! Tough choices to make. I am glad you were listening to the playlist.
Benoit, I don’t like bitch and hoe either and don’t use them. Well bitch occasionally but never hoe.
Dar, I don’t use ’em either, but you sure “hear them” on/in media, especially out of the US.