by teepoo

I love Teen Daze so naturally I’d check out the side project Little Chords. Although they do have that sort of ethereal quality in terms of instrumentation in their sound Little Chords is more of a shoegaze-like dream pop. It’s more lofi than the sonic sounds of Teen Daze but there are great vocal hooks present.
Little Chords- Always/Never
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Little Girls – White Night from Hand Drawn Dracula on Vimeo.

Little Girls Cults has got to be one of my favourite releases of this year. Their songs are just full of fuzzy creepy vocals that are strangely enjoyable. Check out their video for White Night.

I have no idea what is it about Odonis Odonis that I find so captivating. Usually I get easily tired by the whole fuzzy shoegaze stuff but it’s different with him. His new release Hollandaze was such a pleasure to listen through. Like is it just me or is the strange guitar and string squeals in Blood Feast almost eargasmic enough to give you goosebumps in the greatest way possible?
Odonis Odonis- Blood Feast
Oh and of course the creepy video to accompany it:

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by teepoo

Chillwave artists Grandpa Was a Lion have a new release out titled Seven Songs. It’s much more experimental than his previous releases. What I love is that even within the psychadelia and titles like Post Acid there’s a strong sense of emotion being conveyed and not just random noise. Take a listen to free track titled The Test Dream.
Grandpa Was a Lion- The Test Dream
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It’s summer, so let’s bring back the Best Coast and the Wavves and let’s welcome Toronto newcomers, Odonis Odonis. They are going to be this year’s psych-beach-rock faves. They will be playing 3 nights during NXNE, including a secret show at a secret location. You can check show times on their Myspace. Check out and share this track and let’s welcome some summer.
Odonis Odonis- Mr. Smith

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Despite Danny Provencher’s latest album Waiting For the Rain To Fall be backed by Japanese label Fastcut records, the dude is very much a resident of Victoriaville, some place in Quebec somewhere. Since it’s somewhere, I think it’s appropriate that we bring back the chillwave/shoegaze stuff and Under Electric Light falls under this category. Here’s a great track that you can listen to on a sunny afternoon relaxing to a beer (or your preferred alcoholic beverage).
Under Electric Light- Someone Somewhere

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