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THe Pack a.d. examining the spectra of human burden PHOTO BY REBECCA BLISSETT Becky Black and Maya Miller continue to radiate positivity, even on their darkest album to date. Five alaRM FUnk Frank Zappa meets Hedwig meets the mating dance of the silverback gorilla KRISTINA CHARANIA Rule #1 of the best friend and bandmate codebook: when asked to strip naked and be filmed while tied to a cold, hard surface for half a day, one must always oblige. This rule is particularly true when you’re local badass duo The Pack A.D., and you have a knack for creating wicked music videos. Take the science-fiction inspired video for “So What” – the first single off of the band’s latest offering, Positive Thinking – which starts with green alien hands examining vocalist and guitarist Becky Black on a surgery table with lighting wands. Eventually, these aliens pierce her neck with thick-needled gnarly syringes that look as if they’re covered in extraterrestrial earwax. (Yum!) “I think this video was [drummer] Maya’s idea, and…well, I don’t know why I agreed to it,” chuckles Black. “The studio we were in [for the video] also had really high ceilings, so it never heated up in there. I had a wet sheet draped over me for a couple of hours and shivered a lot.” “But, I love the video,” Black concludes. “Science fiction just gets me. I’ll always be a fan.” Despite its title, Positive Thinking is easily the band’s darkest release to date. It’s also the most methodic of their six albums, with polished song infrastructure that extinguish the wild guitar riffs, pounding drum lines, and fuck-you attitude that define the band. Together, the album’s eleven songs act as a lens focusing on the spectra of human burden: cases of quietly aching depression, lethargy, biting loneliness, suffocating and monotonous jobs. Highlights include the pulsing rage of “Yes I Know” and 90’s grunge “Skin Me”, whose lyrics ooze apathy (I’m made of metal/plastic heart/ attack my mind) and complement Black’s droning, sung-through-grittedteeth vocals. From late October through the end of November, the band is touring – pissing rain, post cards to fans, and thrift store pit stops included – in Canada and the US with a small string of shows in France and Germany. Fittingly, their hometown show is their last one. “I’m looking forward to sleeping in for a week, playing some video games, and then doing holiday stuff [after touring],” says Black. “Hopefully, it’ll be nice and relaxing and not terribly, I don’t know, cold. I might be working on some material over the winter and recording too, but who knows. Nothing’s set yet.” The Pack A.D. perform at Fortune Sound Club on November 26. JENNIE ORTON Among the many domestic visceral thrills of Vancouver as a city—the zip lines, the suspension bridges, the whale sightings, and the bathrooms at the Cambie—there is the experience of seeing the throbbing behemoth that is Five Alarm Funk. A self-described “pack of howling funk musicians hopped up on tainted ice cream,” 12 pieces wide Five Alarm Funk creates a show that is utterly relentless: a rare unhinged primate turf war that can cause even the most “over it” Vancouver hipster to cash in their fucksto-give in favor of getting really sweaty. “The driving force of the group, the energy and the feeling of the passion that we get from the audience is what drives the band,” promises band-leader Tayo Branston. “Together in this harmony of sweat and noise and movement; it makes for a wonderful life.” This uncool amount of joy and abandon has served Funk well as they have spent the better part of the last decade touring Canada while selfpromoting and releasing albums and developing a fan base capable of very successful crowdsourcing ventures; the most recent of which funded their yet untitled new album and their hope of expanding their touring efforts to the southern states. The album, set for a spring 2017 release, has been described as “less chaotic” by Branston. “It has some serious pure funk. More in the realm of a dance record than say Abandon Earth, our last record, which was like this heavy metal psychotic gypsy adventure.” Even the most ventilated of venues stinks of that smell that was perpetually in your high school boyfriend’s room, sweat and pheromones and enthusiasm and sweet sweet freedom. “Everybody kind of leaves it at the door at a Five Alarm Funk show,” says Branston. “You’re there for the pure enjoyment of it.” In a world so full of affected songs and affected singers, it behooves us to attend live Five Alarm Funk shows to remind ourselves what life, hard work, and catharsis really feel like; and to support this band of gypsy baboons and their dream of invading our neighbors to the south and loosening them up in their time of great need. Five Alarm Funk plays on November 10 at the Imperial. PHOTO BY MAGGIE MACPHERSON Five Alarm Funk transforms bars across the nation into Pantheons of sexuality unseen by man. November 2016 MUSIC 11
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