1 juin 2009
Par Richard Moule in Signal to Noise #54 (ÉU), 1 juin 2009

Coupure de presse

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1 mars 2009
Par Pierre Durr in Revue & Corrigée #79 (France), 1 mars 2009

Coupure de presse

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12 décembre 2008
Par Nate Dorward in Paris Transatlantic (France), 12 décembre 2008

Texte

«The sense of fun comes through»

It’s Only Life! is by the determinedly offbeat quintet Blah Blah 666. It’s best described as postmodern, DIY vaudeville (banjo, ukulele, ricky-tick percussion, tootling melodicas, glockenspiels) with south-of-the-(American)-border touches, including covers of La Cucaracha and Mexican Hat Dance. They’re probably a band to see live, given the bizarre visual component of the music — Ryan Driver (of the Reveries, another of Toronto’s more self-consciously bizarre ensembles) plays a bass made out of a broom, and Martin and Nick Fraser play a single drumkit simultaneously, at least when one of them’s not playing “plastic blow thing” or trumpet — and perhaps it’s better to think of this as a kind of celebration of the collaborative, communal nature of this city’s music scene. The sense of fun comes through even just on disc, but unlike other offerings on the label, this one relies too much on charm and stylized tattiness.

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