Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

HEOSTATICS’
WHALE Music dives
&® deep; Nirvana

follow Nevermind with
blasts from the past; new
Canadian talents survive the
hard winter at Moose Locige.
Rheastatics — Whale Music,
intrepid Records 1992

Like Crash Test Dummies and
the Tragically Hip, this Taranto
band is one of the many Canadian
groups coming up fast and
unafraid to forge a distinct sound.

The particular strength common
to all three bands is an ability to
pull big lessons from precise little
sketches drawn from the lives of a
generation caught in the gap be-
tween the boomers and the
babies.

There ‘is an orchestral scope
here in terms of arrangement al-
though Rheostatics lay their basic
groundwork simply enough with
guitars.

Whale Music is joyously playful
as is the case with the sing-along
romping Legal Age Life At Variety
Store (featuring the Pyramid of
Stupidity Singers). ;

Whale Music is also blunt
rhetoric — just follow the ‘‘reci- |
pe” spelled out in Guns: ‘’1.
Some goof produces said weapon
from a factory. 2. Some goof owns
a store that peddles death. 3.
Some goof buys the power toy. 4.
Said last goof gets a novel idea. 5.
Someone, not necessarily a goof,
dies.” : ,

But mostly Whale Music is a

rofound, poetic and challenging

isten full of unexpected turns and
tangents.

Nirvana — incesticide, Geffen
1992 .

Chug chug, smash smash,
mumble mumble — calculated
aural disorderliness. The nascent
Nirvana prove themselves just a
fuzz-grungy feedback squeal short
of the very thick mayhem
unleashed on Nevermind.

But where Nevermind revealed

"a consistent sound package, In-

cesticide is arguably a more inter-
esting release in many ways: you
can hear the work in progress as -
the band plays about in the sonic
toy shop, trying out various
musical perspectives and attitudes.

There is a lot to like here. Alter-
native radio is stuck on Sliver, a
song recorded in 1988. Is he say-
ing, “Grandma take me home” or
“Gravitate me home’ or is he
slurring something Japanese?

Such are the esoteric pleasures to
be derived when Nirvanaland
bound. :

Molly’s Lips and Son Of A Gun,
Vaselines covers, display Nirvana’s

punk colors, Hairspray Queen
seems tu pay homage to ear!y XTC
noodlings. Aero Zeppelin offers a
pastiche of rumbling 1970s rock.
Moose Lodge, Vertigo/PolyGram
1992 .

Moose Lodge follows hard on
the heels of 1991's Moose The
Compilation. .

Both are compilations af young
Canadian acts. Most are from On-
tario and points east.

inclusion on the compilation
represents a surfacing from the fr-
inge. The marketing approach,
taking the Moose Records roster

TORONTO'S RHEOSTATICS
forging a distinctive sound.

and covering the country by way
of the distribution power of a label
like PolyGram, is smart and effi-
cient.

Moose The Compilation includ-
ed Rheostatics, Grievous Angels,
Polka Dogs and Lost & Profound.

Moose Lodge introduces us to
U.LC., Joey Ramone’s favorite
Canadian band; Celtic Blue and
Big Smoke, two bands from
Guelph Ontario and the country-
swingin’ Allen Baekeland, among
many others.

Lost & Profound, Lazy Grace,
Grievous Angels and The
Bookmen return with additional
fine cuts.

Moose Lodge represents a wel-
come confirmation of the strength
of our home-grown music scene.

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