The Rule of Three: Mathemagic

Throughout the 2000s I loved listening to music from Canada. Glacial glockenspiel sat alongside loud and rude horns with Broken Social Scene, You Say Party! We Say Die! yelped and shouted with wild abandon, The New Pornographers got supergroup, Ninja High School [really...] channelled b-boy rap with added clapping. The only thing they didn't like was sounding the same as each other.

But over the years I became distracted. There didn't seem to be any new material. Where were the tours we were promised? Kevin Drew released some solo records, Arcade Fire went superstar, Belle Orchestra lost their delicacy and became a little bit overblown....

Then, late last year things started to surprise me again.

First came Free Kisses with her Unrest inspired echoey pop. [download]



Then the dreamlike classical minimalism of Memoryhouse [download]



and finally Mathemagic.

The music of Evan and Dylan Euteneier from Guelph Ontario has a tighter drum beat but it's still dream music that's reassuringly dance, proudly pop and [quietly] pretty. In May Broken Social Scene come back with a 'prog' record. It's all gone full circle. Kind of like... a breastroke.

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