Victoria glam rocker expands sonic vocabulary on new album.
Author of the article: Stuart Derdeyn
Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 14 hours ago • 5 minute read • Victoria musician Art d Ecco releases new album In Standard Definition in April. Photo by Mike Pepperdine /PNG
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On his new album, In Standard Definition, Victoria musician Art d’Ecco expands his sonic template further into classic glam rock territory first explored on his acclaimed debut Trespasser.
Singles such as I Am the Dance Floor or Desire still pack the same solid punchy bass lines, taut drums and popping keyboards that made Never Tell or Nobody’s Home so appealing. But where the earlier tunes were quite stripped down, the new material features a lot more variety in the instrumentation and the arti
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Rootsy Vancouver Island songwriter Layton Kramer is releasing a new album,
Dear Apathy, on April 16 via Oscar St. Records. Ahead of the wide release date, Exclaim! has the premiere of the entire thing.
The nine-song psych-country album was recorded between 2018 and 2020, both at Kramer s house in Victoria and at the Hive Studios. It was produced by Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan, the New Pornographers) and features appearances from Kathryn Calder (who runs Oscar St. Records), Jen Severtson of Peach Pyramid and others.
As you ll hear, the record brings trippy, dreamy sonic weirdness to a twangy palette of vintage Americana and classic garage pop.