Intensive Care

NEW SONG 2 : SIRENHORSES

2007-08-05T19:19:00.001-07:00

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NEW SONG 1 : TREASURE HUNT

2007-08-05T19:17:00.001-07:00

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Busy Like Bees

2007-07-26T07:28:00.001-07:00

Before we take our annual summer hiatus, we are working hard on some new tunes.
I'm happy to see that we're taking quite an interesting direction and the songs are sounding different : not different enough as to clash with our repertoire, but different enough to feel fresh.

There's a fun Treasure Hunt song that is coming up. We played it live the first time last week and it sounded amazing. It includes a 4 minutes zelda-jam in the end that has us all go YEAH !
Another song coming up is more happy and uplifting (in an intensive-care way that is). Don't expect to feel joyful after it, but I'd have to say that it's definetly more on the bright side.

Hopefully, by mid-August, we'll have three new songs ready to be played for our "departure gig" on the 11th.

I should also mention we're working on covers these days. New covers coming up include Silverchair and Cake songs... We plan on having a new cover every gig!

New Review !

2007-07-12T18:01:00.000-07:00

Chronik made a great review of us :

here is the text

8/10

Dès les premiers instants, on sent l’influence spacyrockambiant, tant par la musique que par la livraison vocale de Philippe Mannaseh. Un peu à la saveur des groupes influents, comme Radiohead ou Muse, qui le rendent si bien, les chansons sont construites et livrées de manière à ce que la comparaison soit inévitable. Toutefois, la musique d’Intensive Care est peut-être teintée d’une saveur plus pop, voire jazz, et plus feutrée, qui parfois frôle le délicat par ses ambiances sonores. Comme chez un schizophrène aux multiples personnalités, la tension est toujours présente entre ces différentes ambiances. Et le côté plus agressif du groupe prend parfois le dessus, au grand plaisir des auditeurs, et rock la cabane par ses montées progressives de rock accentuées par ses crises de panique intensives. Peut-être plus jazzé qu’électro, si on compare Intensive Care à ses comparses de Muse et Radiohead, mais tout aussi évocateur. Beaucoup de sons et de sonorités meublent les pièces de cet album et les membres n’ont pas négligé l’aspect technique de l’enregistrement. Alors que d’autres peuvent facilement tomber dans le kitsch ou le trop technique, le groupe a su bien doser les ambiances. Ce disque comble par sa diversité et par ses sonorités éclectiques, un mélange parfait et audacieux. Encore une fois, une démo de la scène locale qui annonce un bel album!

Link

Montreal by Montreal

2007-06-12T13:39:00.001-07:00

Some band members are writing in a blog about MOntreal.

check it out at

http://montrealbymontreal.blogspot.com/

fluffy.bluffy.

phil.

book recommendation

2007-06-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

if you don't know Philip Roth by july 2007, I will hunt you down and kill you.
haha!

No seriously, he's very rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors. He's witty, has a great style and has that jewish paranoia/wisdom that I love about jewish artists (namely woody allen), exept more sexual and more dramatic :) but expect a few innapropriate laughs on the way.

Check him out

Other recommendations by him : The dying animal and The Breast , which are both part of the Kepesh Trilogy (first part being The professor of desire)

Music I've been listening to

2007-05-30T11:28:00.000-07:00

Other than tori, I've discovered a few bands that I'm really getting into these days.

First of all, Explosions in the Sky are simply awesome. Think of them as a blend of Sigur Ros and GodSpeed you black emperor. Their latest album moves me very much and I would definetly recommend it.

Other artists on my ipod this week are montreal's Besnard Lakes. they're the montreal indie rock version of the beach boys. haha Seriously...

That's it for now.
Back for more soon.

phil;)

Our First Review

2007-05-10T10:43:00.000-07:00

We were featured in Montreal's HOUR magazine, with a positive review.

Here is a transcript :

2805
Dave Jaffer

Like many young bands, Intensive Care occasionally err by imitating their influences (Muse most specifically). Ignore this minor crime - and you should - and you'll find an interesting local band that blends the barbed, dirty, unfriendly elbows of rock with calmer tenets of jazz. Sometimes it flat-out doesn't work, but oftentimes it does. Clearly, there's a lot of talent here, revealed most specifically in the rockier moments of Distorted Love Song and Stray. If I'm right in assuming an EP's job is to build up interest in the LP, then consider 2805 a success.

click here for online link

Tori

2007-05-04T23:20:00.000-07:00

I can't resist. I have to write about this.
I just got the new Tori Amos Album, and surprise-surprise : I love it !
Being a huge fan, I felt a bit let down with the last album where she went all sugar-coaty-i'm-a-mother-now-so i'm going to sing about the mother earth and the bees and mary magdalene- and sing mellow songs- bullshit.
Now she's back with a collection of songs that shatter bounderies of genre. Songs go from heavy glam-rock to easter european jingles, passing by midnight nightclub anthems or acoustic ballads. And the genius is that it all flows like crazy.

My favorites : Teenage Hustling, Code Red, Smokey Joe, Girl Dissapearing, Big Wheel

check out her website at toriamos.com

jonny...

2007-04-27T15:02:00.000-07:00

I just got a copy of this album from my neighbour Tyler.

It's Jonny Greenwood w/ Trojan. Probably the edgiest and most interesting reggae i've ever heard.

It really sounds great

You should check it out:

http://www.trojan-records.com/index.php?l1=1&articleID=545&page=&PHPSESSID=a0f0e034844c0d03db2cf44090737c0d

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40300-jonny-greenwood-curates-trojan-records-reggae-comp

nad

Gig !

2007-04-26T22:04:00.000-07:00

Tonight's Barfly felt so good I had to post something about it.
Funny thing happened when nad broke a string and the rest of us ended up playing Alicia Keys' Fallin, out of nowhere. Pure pleasure ! Thank god the audience was so much fun. First time an audience makes me feel at ease. So thank you people ! ;)

Next up is the Main Hall gig... Exciting....

phil

EP !

2007-04-26T09:07:00.000-07:00

The EP just arrived from printers and I'm very excited about it. We can't release it before May 16th and it's killing me. The boxes are in my house, gently awaiting that date.

Meanwhile, we're doing promo and trying to get reviewed and possibly interviewed (??). We'll let you know if anything gives.

you can still listen to two of the songs on our website or myspace. Enjoy

Phil

patro-art

2007-04-17T22:40:00.000-07:00

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First post !

2007-04-15T20:34:00.000-07:00

Well this is my first post on this blog.

The website went online today. That's exciting! We can now connect more with our thousands of fans (ironic face) around the world. no, seriously. We'll be posting all relevant band issues there. This blog will keep you informed with the most important band developments, songwriting process as well as random snippets from the members. Hopefully, you'll react to our posts and share your opinions with us.

In case you were wondering, that picture on the left is the cover of our first EP, 2805, to be released on may 16th at our Main Hall gig.

I guess I'll write soon.

That's it for now

phil