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1 Mile North - Minor Shadows (Ba Da Bing) 2003
7 tracks :: 51:19


1 Mile North/Colophon/Wind Up Bird - Conduction.Convection.Radiation (Music Fellowship) 2005
10 tracks :: 60:51

I ended up with the 1-Mile North disc through some label solicitation for the perMUTATIONS radio show I was doing on CHSR. I liked it so much I brought in Music Fellowship split release to the store. I usually leave things like that on the shelf to pique people's interest for a couple of months... and when that fails I buy 'em myself. 1-Mile North are a slow and deliberate guitar/bass/electronics outfit in the Labradford vein. The first track on their album was one of those clinchers called "in 1983 he loved to fly."
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4- Star Movie - S/T (Poster Girl) 1998
13 tracks :: 46:51

Got it as a store playcopy from the label... Poster Girl was only around 1996-2000 and also put out a full length by Cheticamp... which we also received but I turfed somewhere along the line... and a compilation featuring tracks by New Grand and Zumpano (Vancouver band from whence sprang New Pornographers) and some 7" singles including a split with Joe Pernice and Cheticamp.
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A Frames - Black Forest (Sub Pop) 2005
14 tracks :: 34:34

Store playcopy. Not an all around winner... a semi-successful grafting of The Cramps and Bauhaus. Just enough cool tracks to bother keeping around, for now.
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Aarktica - Pure Tone Audiometry (Darla) 2003
7 tracks :: 45:08

Aarktica - Bleeding Light (Darla) 2004
8 tracks :: 46:37

I have a certain affinity for dreamy/noisy pop bands. Aarktica are certainly good at this stuff, although when they go too far out on a limb experimentally they lose their austerity. Good for riding in buses or pretending to write poetry in coffee shops.
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ABBC - Tete a Tete (Wabana) 2001
10 tracks :: 46:51

The band initials refer to Naïm Amor, Thomas Belhom, Joey Burns and John Convertino. You hip folks may recognize the last two names since they are the core members of Calexico, another favourite I'll be listening to in a month or so. The other two gentlemen are their French counterparts. Together they make music that's somewhere between the earliest TexMex instrumentals the American pair are known for and gentle yet strange French swoony folk/country.
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Accelera Deck - Shadow Land (Scarecelight) 2001
14 tracks :: 42:48

C. Jeely is Accelera Deck. I received a more recent disc (filed in the electronic section of my library for some reason and therefore upcoming) of his from the tbtmo label for the radio show... though that one was mostly distorted washes of electric guitar with occasional drum machines and more ambient passages... cool shit in other words. I spotted this disc in a cheapie bin in Montreal and grabbed it... but it turned out to be mostly gentle acoustic guitar songs... quelle surprise!!! Still, despite the shock, it's moody enough to assimilate.