Nancees - The Nancees (2011)

We managed to hit Calgary's three big record stores yesterday as part of our Record Store Day Beer Crawl, and ended up grabbing this little tape from Sloth.

We heard the Nancees playing live on Adam Kamis' Failed Pilot a few weeks ago, and were super impressed by these young kids. They play straight-ahead garage rock that wouldn't be at all out of place on the Wyld Canada compilations. Highly recommended for those who miss the Gaye Rage.

Update: the Nancees are no more, and it's been a loooong time since we posted this... have the dl.

Lab Coast - Pictures on the Wall (2011)

We at the CCPS are often (and with good reason) accused of living in the past. We'd like to point out that we do pay attention to the current crop of musicians, and we often do find stuff to get excited about. Lab Coast are another that we've recently grown fond of, and so finding a new tape of theirs is pretty special.

This is great low-fi bedroom pop. We like Chris Dadge a lot, he's a talented guy who's a real musical chameleon.

Apparently, you can download this from iTunes, but we were lucky enough to score a tape. The download doesn't have the saucy soldier for cover art, so we think we totally won with this.

Biscaynes - Two New Fenders (1995)

We really don't know a thing about this tape. We found it a while back, and every time we go searching for more information, we get stuck looking at pictures of big cars. We do appreciate the double meaning of Fenders, though.

Get it here.

Marsha - R-Tape (1995)

We stumbled on this tape in Recordland a few weeks ago, and were kind of excited to find it. Mostly because at this point finding anything new or interesting in Recordland is pretty much impossible. But here we have a second tape from Marsha.

From the liner notes, this looks like it was recorded in a weekend, and is a testament to what a trio of guys with bedroom pop sensibilities can do in the studio. This is kind of like a juvenile, prairie Pet Sounds - we're not sure what we mean by that, so if you can help us understand ourselves, we certainly welcome the help.

Get theiR-Tape here.