By Aaron Levy (CIVL Station Manager) – Email
Print Edition: November 6, 2013
Birds Of Canada’s Adam Roper is a man of the city – he’s the timeless-looking dude you see every morning walking past that hip coffee place everyone is talking about, wearing a tailored jacket with an organic scarf and Fluevog shoes. Here are a few songs in his widely-envied music library, conceived deep in the heart of the urban jungle by Pacific Trash Vortex’s host, Mr. Brandon Greaves.
Tough Age – “Heart of Juliet Jones”
There’s this trendy new music format going around these days called the cassette – a small plastic box with magnetic tape. Vancity’s
Tough Age released their debut on one of said tapes and distributed it on the sly before signing to Mint Recs. If you want a copy, it’s all in who you know.
Body/Head – “Last Mistress”
If this band had come out in 1993, your parents would have called the funny farm to whisk you away to a lifetime of basket-weaving and white lab coats for listening to it. Parents of the late 90s are way cooler! Shoegaze! Sonic Youth! These days listening to shoegaze puts you in the top tier of music connoisseurs.
HSY – “Tartar Mouth”
Releasing music with patchy-sounding recording and aggressive tendencies used to be frowned upon (unless you were from Vancouver Island, where until around the 2000s there was no such thing as a good-sounding band). This Toronto band is perfect for the car ride home after church or Christmas dinner. If you live anywhere but in the heart of the city, your parents will freak.
Jay Arner – “Midnight on South Granville”
With artists like Jay Arner, you either have all their music on CD-Rs and vinyl from back in the day, or you recognize them on stage as the barista from that coffee place on Granville Island. Kudos to Vancouver’s hard-working baristas, working all hours of the night to appease the coffee gods.
