When you think of bands from Canada you think of…The Ketamines? Probably not but nonetheless here they are with their debut EP on Hozac Records and verily Ketamine madness inhabits these three songs.
"Line By Line" is very nearly a proper pop song mining garage pop in such a way that makes you wonder if The Ramones would have sounded like this had they overdosed on candy floss at the county fair. By comparison, "New Victims" is a bit dirtier but haunted by the ghosts of psychedelic pop with a lost in the vibe guitar tripping all over the place. Like wondrous, man.
"Dig" is an epic by this band's standards and is again a throwback to better, smoking the pipe times and gets all seriously screwed up in such a manner that you have to suspect its creators of watching that Monkees' film Head few hundred times in a row. Backwards.
Sound quality? Perhaps not the band's prime concern so let's just say that, while the single does look kind of good spinning round on translucent gold vinyl, there is the clear and present danger that your uppity Linn LP12 will throw a huffy fit and refuse to play it.