Ottawa, ON
http://radio3.cbc.ca/artists/KINGSTON-FOG
Kingston Fog started off as a guitar/violin duo playing folk music with an indie-rock twist. After playing several shows around Ottawa, the band recorded an album, You’ll Never Win, Love Always, God, which combined the stripped down folk sound with unique indie-styled experimentation. The album made college radio charts and received favourable reviews across Canada.
Not long after the album came out, the band got in touch with a couple of friends from high school, one a classically trained pianist/safecracker, the other an accomplished drummer/singer/multi-instrumentalist. Both joined the band, and the quartet set themselves to composing and arranging new songs and fleshing out a new sound. The result is the forthcoming album Urgency. The title implies the major evolution in the sound: the folk and indie-rock sensibilities remain, but they have been intensified by a complete overhaul of the arrangement. There are wurlitzers, buzzing organs, raining pianos; acoustic, delayed and distorted guitars; violins, violas, entire string sections; drums that range from syncopated stabs to jackhammer cannons; and other guests that include an accordion we found, a saxophone we rented, and wooden box purchased at a flea market. The sound is organic but electric. The theme is not one chiefly of lost love but of an urgency that can be felt at all times. This is music for the bedroom, for the stereo speakers, and for the getaway car.
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Interpol, Supertramp, The Decemberists, The Smiths, Yes
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