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IZABELLA BRODOWSKA Montreal...
...Montreal has always appeared to be something that it’s not, starting with the name: no one in the band is from Montreal. And, true to form, new release “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” sets gloomy lyrics to undeniably upbeat hooks, startling the listener to bittersweet effect. The best example is “A Sentences of Sorts in Kongsvinger.” Leadman Kevin Barnes sings, “I spent the winter on the verge of a total breakdown while living in Norway” over an irrepressible synth...
...made using 96 tracks of instrumentation makes me think too much. When the band sticks to what it does best, the album is freed from its cerebral blueprint. The result is a good, not great, summer pop album that sounds like a cross between the Beach Boys and Of Montreal. The album opens with cowbell on “Can You Feel It?,” which asks (and sort of answers) the question “Can you feel it? / It makes you feel so good.” Unadorned pop joy ensues with catchy songs like the aptly...
Because of immigration policy, Dewachi said he had to stay in the United States for the first three years of his Ph.D. program. He said in a phone interview from Montreal that after the fall of the Hussein regime in 2003, he “got the courage to leave and visit my family in Beirut, Lebanon, who had also left Iraq...
After spending a year in London doing fieldwork for his dissertation on the Iraqi diaspora in Britain, he moved to Montreal to finish writing it and became a permanent resident of Canada in June 2005. According to Dewachi, Canada recognizes his “N” series passport...