the High Dials!

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There doesn't seem to be much about this sensational Montreal band on ILM. Since I am currently listening to them at work. (i'm at work, they're not here. Not in body, at least.)
I have sorta liked them ever since they were the Datsuns, but their recent album War of the Wakening Phantoms is frigging awesome. Probably my favourite record this year.
It's a big fat psych-pop epic with intense handclaps, dramatic lifts and builds and, I swear, nobody closes a song better than this band. I could probably just listen to the last 30 seconds of every song and be half-satisfied.
I think they just finished a West Coast tour opening for Brian Jonestown Massacre.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

they've been lauded like hell by my local record store. i dig the whole rainbow quartz scene, but i've been too overloaded to give them more of a chance.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I've pretty much liked them since their Datsuns days too. I only picked up Wakening Phantoms a couple of weeks ago (sometimes a special order takes a bit), but the first few listens have been satisfying. I really like the direction the band's taking.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

"Your Eyes are a Door" is blowing my mind for the third time today. It's almost what Everly Bros would sound like as a dub act performing at a science fair.

I dig the Rnbw Qtz biz too, but sometimes it feels like they spread themselves a little thin with too many similar sounding releases (which is, I think, what msp was saying). High Dials are sorta outside the typical RQ power pop dynamic.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

i like this band, love the quartz, and quietly wonder to myself why there's no outrageous cherry thread.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Our Love... is fucking magnificent album. Similar to the new New Pornographers (hey, Carl "A.C." Newman even raved about it on Amazon!), only even better.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

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