| · To borrow from the Blocks Blocks Blocks recording collective's mantra:
"Don't try, Do!"
As a side project of Toronto’s heavenly The Hidden Cameras, it’s easy to expect Les Mouches to travel similarly candy-coated orchestral pop highways. Instead, this 10-strong gang led by Owen Pallett dwell in darker corners better suited to the likes of Glenn Branca’s Theoretical Girls and the like-minded pranksters U.S. Maple.
Opener "Love Song To An Empty Room" sets the template – hushed guitar lines accompanied by Pallett’s faintly operatic singing broken by random outbreaks of pure instrumental insanity. By the time the album reaches "Requiem To The Victims Of Frankfurt," it’s all been coalesced down to metronomic perfection (when Pallett threatens, "If I had my bike lock you’d be fucking dead," I hid under my desk). Most impressive though is easily Blood Orgy!!’s closing rendition of the Carpenters’ "(They Long To Be) Close To You," respectfully torn to bits.
It’s a land away from the Hidden Cameras sunny world of pee-drenched melody. Attempting to dance to it would only lead to dislocated hips.
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