Love This Time

Love This Time: This Victoria, B.C. band's self-described "electro-country" aesthetic bursts beyond the bounds of precious theory on this track from their upcoming fourth album by uniting, among other things, heavily treated vocals and a bassline that dips in and out of both genres. The result could be described as a musical recombinant. - eye, Toronto

Building from atmospheric electronics, a piano, banjo and deep resonant vocals to a full-blown orchestral country masterpiece complete with horns. Then things get to be a bit weird. - Americana - UK

If alt-country has reached a wall of late, The Buttless Chaps more or less kick that wall down with Love This Time, exposing it as a plywood set piece with an entire world of possibility behind. On their debut album for Vancouver's Mint label, the Victoria band deftly juxtaposes the usual banjos and shuffling giddy-up beats with wickedly weird new-wave synth, distorted vocals, horns, a choir and other curiosities. With a handful of hauntingly ominous tunes they prove their skill, but then proceed to defy the expectations these songs create, delving into different, risky terrain and achieving a wonderful strangeness. - Montreal Mirror

Love this Time, from the idiosynchratic electro-cowboys who brought us 2001’s eyebrow-raising Death Scenes I II III, is an album dedicated to... roadkill. This time 'round, “Canada’s best named band” (Exclaim) takes a different tangent courtesy of überman Chôn, and invited such folks as Carolyn Mark, Ford Pier, Jesse Zubot, Radiogramís Ida Nilsen and others in a carefully and crazily orchestrated journey down the synth’d “Gold Rush Trail”.

Tracklist

  1. 18 Rabbits
  2. Love this Time
  3. Babbles
  4. Lonely Hearts
  5. Fresh Horses
  6. Shuttle Systems
  7. Banjee
  8. Plain Wrench
  9. Numan
  10. Kinda Empty
  11. Brotherhood
Catalogue Number: MRD068
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Formats: CD/Digital