Miesha and the Spanks - Please Don't Blow/Girls, Like Wolves (2013)

So, we're still reeling from the coitus interruptus of the cancellation of this year's Sled Island. But at least we had three great days - and managed to score this tape, which Miesha and the Spanks were giving out for FREE! at their show at the Legion.

This is a two-track sampler of the band's upcoming Ian Blurton-produced full length, and it sounds pretty amazing. Big, big guitars and drums, with lots of room for Miesha's voice.

We're putting this (along with the rest of our tape collection) on a nice, high shelf to keep it dry in case the CCPS offices ever flood. You can grab the tracks off of bandcamp.

Breaker - In Days of Heavy Metal (1982)

We're going to go a bit sideways here, as we slip into the abyss that is Sled Island. We just found out about this last week, when we were visiting Recordland. Eraz Cohen started asking if we'd heard about this obscure metal band... which, not being super-conversant in metal, we of course hadn't. But a bit of digging on the interwebs, and we were able to find out a whole bunch about these guys. Well, a relatively good amount anyways.

Folks who are more in the know about such things suggest that these guys were well ahead of their time. We're surprised to hear such a well-produced record coming out of the city at that time - apparently this was recorded here at EK Sound and produced by one of the guys from the Stampeders.

Which almost redeems the Stampeders. Almost.

Lab Coast - Wilding (2010)

So, as we have previously alluded to, the CCPS believes in the supremacy of tape in terms of recorded media. An unexpected consequence of this belief it that when we find something on tape that we already have on CD/vinyl/mp3, we HAVE to buy it. Hence today's post.

We're pretty sure we bought this Wilding CD about two years ago and - as with all Lab Coast recordings - we really, really like it. So we bought it again when we saw the tape in Sloth. This is a much different band than the one that you'll see these days, with just Chris Dadge and David Laing making some amazing, low-fi pop (along with a couple of their usual conspirators on the cassette-only live track).

Get it via the Lab Coast bandcamp.

GreyScreen - Thrillogy (2012)

We've had a good tape week here at the CCPS, mostly because we finally picked up a couple of tapes that have been tempting us at the front of Sloth for a while. We, as the kids say, "gripped" some soon-to-be "rarez".

The first is this amazing bit of 8-bit mastery from Bart Records mastermind Kevin Stebner. Turns out, this is the perfect soundtrack for our crippling addiction to Team Fortress 2 (wonder why we're light on posts some months? It's probably because it's easier to play TF2 than to write 100 words).

Here's a video of Stebner rockin' the Nintendos at Olympic Plaza. The best thing about an Olympic Plaza show is, of course, watching the audience. It takes all sorts, eh?



You can download this from the GreyScreen bandcamp.

CCPS Miscellany: James Leroy - Distinction (2010)

More from Lethbridge! We've been amazed at the quality of stuff that has come out of that city - and also the quantity that has been linked to Paul Lawton.  While this tape was put out by Scotch Tapes in 2010, it collects stuff that Lawton and James Leroy recorded in the early 2000's - stuff that we once got our hands on via Soulseek or some other weird filesharing method.

Anyways, this is more straight-ahead pop than the more psych-tinged stuff that Lawton (and Leroy?) have been exploring recently with the Ketamines.



We believe this is out of print, so we'll let you borrow our copy.