I know you've been wondering. Where is Nick Diamonds? Where is J'aime? Montreal? LA? NYC? Since winning the hearts of the masses as two/thirds of the French Canadian band the Unicorns, the pair have been busy traveling around this country and theirs working on various musical projects— including a brand new fantastique pop group called Islands.
Diamonds describes his group's new music as "F-14 tomcat blah, blah," which is really French-Canadian slang for fiery, shiny and shimmering madcap pop. Really though, it's wonderful stuff and I couldn't be happier to be the first kid on the block to bring it to you.
This time out, you can take a little piece of the music home with you, so follow the blue to download "Flesh" and "Abominable Snow" from Montreal's (and now your) very own, Islands.
Like last time, feel free to link up to these nuggets, but be a (non-gender specific) dude and give credit where it's due.
Cheers. Although i've Abominable Snowman before. Meh.
Posted by: Hi | June 29, 2005 at 10:01 AM
heard*
Posted by: Hi again it's me again | June 29, 2005 at 10:02 AM
Many thanks for coming up with the goods sir!!!
Posted by: Dean | June 29, 2005 at 10:38 AM
thanks so much for posting these--beautiful songs!!
Posted by: Ellen | June 29, 2005 at 11:10 AM
mmmm, sooo good. thank you so much. I have some Th' Corn Gangg stuff and thats pretty darn good too.
Posted by: Mike | June 29, 2005 at 12:36 PM
"Abominable Snowman" was much better as a more-rocky Unicorns song done at one of those radio sessions.
"Flesh"... the intro reminds me some of No-Wave (which I like) but the song doesn't really go anywhere. I hope that they get their shit together. :(
Posted by: Derek | June 29, 2005 at 04:33 PM
best pitchfork shout-out ever
Posted by: dave | June 29, 2005 at 04:39 PM
These boys are not French Canadian !
Posted by: deeselig | June 29, 2005 at 05:11 PM
When can we expect an album...
Some live shows !!???
In Ottawa or Mtl on top of a mountain... or on a mountain top !??
Posted by: Frank | June 29, 2005 at 07:17 PM
Damn, what else is there to check out from the 'corns besides the album, unicorns are people too, and 2014?!
Posted by: Hot Sex | June 29, 2005 at 07:30 PM
A TON more tracks
+rare Alden Ginger stuff
Posted by: Austin | June 29, 2005 at 10:02 PM
OMFG!!!! seriously, you don't know the good you've made to the entire planet for breaking out these news!!!
the unicorns are (were) my favorite band since the first time i've heard their album, and i was longing for new stuff from them....
...and "islands" is really amazing!! i guess those two tracks come from a complete album, don't they? (after all, the mp3s are labeled 3/12 and 5/12...so... may i ask....
when?
i hope soon, and on alien8recordings, so i can order it from here (i live in brazil and work on a record store).
anyway, what i've meant to say is, thanks, you've made my day...
Posted by: franty | June 30, 2005 at 01:41 AM
i don't understand why every montreal band is refered too as being french canadian when the bulk of the music scene here is anglo.
montreal is a city of 3 million people and according to the canadian census bureau , in 2001 there were 750 000 non-french speakers living in montreal.
Posted by: comet | June 30, 2005 at 11:05 AM
Thank You Thank You Thank You!, you just made my day guys
Posted by: macrophone | June 30, 2005 at 05:41 PM
seriously, you just made it
Posted by: macrophone | June 30, 2005 at 05:42 PM
where is is the cherubic, most lovely alden? can any of this work without him???
Posted by: irina | June 30, 2005 at 08:18 PM
Nick and Jaime are recording the proper Islands album as we speak. It's also supposed to feature Richard Parry and Tim Kingsbury from the Arcade Fire.
Also of interest is the "Do They Know It's Halloween?" benefit single Nick and Jaime are coordinating which will feature the Arcade Fire, Beck, Thurston Moore, Karen O, Spike Jones, David Cross, and whole whack of other people.
You can find more about all this at the Pop Montreal site, and my blog.
Alden is also making some beautiful music right now. Think French new wave film instrumental soundtrack stuff. As far as I know the only thing he's put out is a little self-released 7" that I reviewed a coupled months ago.
Posted by: Andrew Rose | July 01, 2005 at 01:59 AM
Yeah I don't know about islands
Do they know it's Halloween sounds great but the vocals on abominable snowman from Islands sounds a little strange
Posted by: Fuck Modee | July 02, 2005 at 08:49 AM
It works since the Unicorns are gone. Not as good, but still a nice sound.
Posted by: Raashi | July 02, 2005 at 11:32 AM
album out october-ish time
Posted by: lou | July 04, 2005 at 03:51 PM
are these 2 'podsafe'?
Posted by: m-c | July 10, 2005 at 11:15 AM
i listens to a "th' corn gangg" concert, and right before they played abominable snow.man they said it was an arcade fire song.
yeah.
Posted by: alexander. | July 14, 2005 at 04:07 PM
listened.
Posted by: alexander. | July 14, 2005 at 04:09 PM
dude. i love these 2 songs and loved the unicorns.
i live in L.A. and im looking but where can i find th' corn gangg music, and alden ginger's solo stuff? thanks for helping me out.
Posted by: robert | July 27, 2005 at 07:42 PM
Good fucking lord, this is quite possibly the best news I've heard in a long while. Thanks, so, so much. And yeah, I've been sifting through a bunch of stuff, trying to find Th'Corn Gangg stuff, and am turning up with nothing. Where, oh where can I fill this void?
Posted by: Laura | August 04, 2005 at 09:41 PM