NEW SONG 2 : SIRENHORSES

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NEW SONG 1 : TREASURE HUNT

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Busy Like Bees

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 !

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

Some band members are writing in a blog about MOntreal.

check it out at

http://montrealbymontreal.blogspot.com/




fluffy.bluffy.

phil.

book recommendation

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

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;)