Women - Women
(Flemish Eye) CD & LP
It sounds like it was recorded on a four track, and it plausibly was as bedroom-recording-mastermind Chad Vangaalen was the one that did it. The lads that compile Women – two of which are members of Calgarian co-patriots Azeda Booth (debut album out July 22 on Absolutely Kosher!) – throw together glistening harmonies as divided by drills and drones. With emphasis on pedals, distortion and a fuzz box; at times they allude the air of the Dischord catalogue, as on “January 8th”; before they catch the flipside of the coin like a walk home from a summer barbecue, as per “Black Rice.” Through interchanges of clamour and clarity; Women seem to be another element into what might be introducing Calgary, AB as the home of a blooming music scene, indeed.