BeatRoute Magazine Alberta print e-edtion - June 2016
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper based in Western Canada with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise.
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A GLANCE AT CALGARY<br />
Get to know a few of our own<br />
ADVANCES<br />
L.T. LEIF<br />
SINZERE SINGS<br />
SLO DANCE<br />
photo: Michael Grondin<br />
So many awesome Calgary bands playing Sled<br />
(nearly 70), so few pages in <strong>BeatRoute</strong>! Below<br />
is just a peek at some locals you may not have<br />
known or who we haven’t had the chance to cover<br />
much in the magazine. It’s up to you to find out<br />
about the rest!<br />
ADVANCES<br />
Smooth R&B and disco-infused house beats will<br />
get your booty shaking. Produced by a collection of<br />
Calgary beatmakers and DJs, Advances’ main goal is<br />
to get you dancing and swaying. They’ll be playing<br />
as a live act for Sled Island.<br />
ALEEM KHAN<br />
Perhaps the only Calgarian artist set to introduce<br />
their seven-piece live band and brand new album<br />
at Sled Island <strong>2016</strong>, Aleem finds himself hard to put<br />
into words. Expect lushness.<br />
BLÜ SHORTS<br />
Blü Shorts may be the freakiest band in town. They<br />
play sludgy, discordant art-punk louder and with<br />
weirder than anyone else. One writer called their<br />
Sled Island 2015 set the best they saw at the festival.<br />
CHUURCH<br />
A heavy cloud of intrigue hangs above duo<br />
Chuurch, who appeared in Calgary with little warning<br />
a very short while ago. They’ve just dropped<br />
their first EP, and let’s say it has seriously caught our<br />
attention.<br />
CRACK CLOUD<br />
Relentless fury and a patient, white knuckle grip.<br />
Crack Cloud travels on a delicate line - one side regimented<br />
thought, the other side bringing absolute<br />
chaos. With the drums acting as the centerpiece,<br />
punctuated guitar snaps, droning synths, hints of<br />
saxophone and smooth bass lines add tension and<br />
weight.<br />
HERMITESS<br />
The Hermitess lives up to her namesake in more<br />
ways than one. A live performance from Jennifer<br />
Crighton is special not just in its beauty and<br />
intricacy, but also its rarity. At Sled Island, she’ll<br />
be performing musically with her dissonant and<br />
rapturous freak-folk. Yet a whole other side awaits:<br />
Crighton has put together a filmic, auditory, and<br />
sculptural installation as well.<br />
L. T. LEIF<br />
The initialized name is new for Laura Leif, but she’s<br />
been doing great work for years. Woodpidgeon, EM-<br />
BASSYLIGHTS, HexRay, and others owe at least some<br />
of their history to Leif. Her new release, Shadow on the<br />
Brim / Rough Beasts, is primed for a July release show,<br />
and may be unlike anything you’ve heard from her.<br />
NORWEGIAN ICEBREAKER<br />
It’s been said before, but we’ll say it again: Norwegian<br />
Icebreaker are the loudest band in Calgary.<br />
They’re a psychotic freak-out mess in the best<br />
possible way.<br />
SINZERE SINGS<br />
Sinzere is a rapper and singer who plays Sled for the<br />
first time following her appearance at the inaugural<br />
Femme Wave. She works in different subgenres of<br />
hip-hop that take on haters and heartfelt emotion.<br />
SLO DANCE<br />
Patiently and quietly, Slo Dance make the most unprecedented<br />
pop music in town. Minimal production<br />
from Evangelos Lambrinoudis and raw vocals<br />
from Kaleem Khan will leave you gasping for air.<br />
36 | JUNE <strong>2016</strong> • BEATROUTE ROCKPILE
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