Saturday 14 May 2011
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Garrett Johnson started his band Brazilian Money in Edmonton, Alberta, after his last band (The Wicked Awesomes!) broke up for a time. Being the kind of guy to not let something like a lack of musicians hold him back, Johnson set to work making new music on his own, recording everything himself at home. His new album, This Is Not a dream certainly sounds like it was recorded at home, and that’s part and parcel of it’s freaky charms. Admittedly, when I first started listening to the record, I thought it was just going to be another disjointed lo-fi pop-exploding collection of cast offs that clogs my inbox everyday, but but the time I got down to “Party Til I’m Dead”–a highlight of this record–I realized that Brazilian Money were heads and tails above those other bands. I don’t want to name names, but I find that a lot of musicians who’s style and sound is similar to Brazilian Money end up making records that feel forced, as if they’re trying way to hard to sound spontaneous. What I like about This Is Not a Dream is the sense you get that what you’re hearing is not trying to be passed off as anything but what it is–a rough-around-the-edges, classic-pop inspired bedroom record.
This Is Not a Dream is available as a physical cassette on Totally Disconnected, the sister label to the blog Weird Canada (which won CBC Radio 3‘s Searchlight contest for best music website in Canada), or you can also name your price and download the LP at the Brazilian Money Bandcamp page.
MP3: Brazilian Money “Party Til I’m Dead”
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