Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian

Lead singer Matthew Camirand once said Blood Meridian are alt.country made by people who don't know how to do alt.country. Perhaps, then, that's what makes them so effing great. Kick Up The Dust is an alt.country gem from mastermind Camirand, who also plays in Black Mountain. His voice is so far from the genre's norm — his drawl is more Kurt...
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Kick Up The Dust

Blood Meridian — We Almost Made It Home

Singing, "Just livin’ every day like it matters anyway" from the track "Oh Oh Oh," Matthew Camirand sums up this entire gloom-pop exercise. While We Almost Made It Home contains some pretty arrangements, the debut release from Vancouver indie collective Blood Meridian rarely crawls out from under Camirand’s morose monotone and...
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We Almost Made It Home

Toronto Maple Leaf Boyd Devereaux Will Release New Blood Meridian EP

Toronto Maple Leafs centre Boyd Devereaux will never lead the National Hockey League in scoring, but there's a good chance that he's at the head of the pack when it comes to music knowledge. And now he's using it in a business venture called Elevation Recordings that will bring you a Blood Meridian EP on Nov. 20. Devereaux and former Dirtbombs...
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MSTRKRFT Have The Looks To Top The Chart

Last week we looked at the trends on the top 50 chart for the past six Augusts and predicted further dominance of the incumbent #1 album. But this month is starting to take shape as a turbulent one. For the first time in a number of months, there have been three different albums at #1 for the past three weeks. Two weeks ago it was Sonic Youth's...
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Kick Up The Dust

Blood Meridian Will Kick Up The Dust Through The Spring And Summer

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Matt Camirand is a busy man these days. His Vancouver-based country-rock outfit Blood Meridian are on the cusp of releasing a new album and have been touring Europe with Black Mountain, for whom Camirand plays bass, and the Pink Mountaintops, in which he also makes the odd appearance. Kick Up The Dust, Blood...
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Blood Meridian

New Releases: Under The Radar

February's release calendar was exactly like the television sweeps period that it corresponds with. There were three straight weeks of excellent releases/shows, followed by one week of unmitigated silence/reruns. There are a couple of good records coming on Tuesday. The most notable is The Buttless Chaps' Where The Night Holds Light. Of course...
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