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The High Dials — Moon Country

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) November 26, 2008 5:52 pm
A lot has changed since this Montreal-based band began as The Datsons eight years ago, evolved into The Datson Four and eventually became The High Dials before the 2003 release of A New Devotion. While psychedelia has always played a big role in their music, it was often blended with energetic rock moments that — aside from "Oisin, My Bastard...
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The High Dials @ CMW 2007

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) March 9, 2007 5:30 pm
Background/Composition: There's something essentially Canadian about this band and their rock. It's the same thing the Tragically Hip have — when you hear their music, it's obvious where they come from. They've been around a long time and that dedication manifests itself in an onstage professionalism that few bands can claim to have. Grade...
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The High Dials — War Of The Wakening Phantoms

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By Brian Wong (CHARTattack) June 7, 2005 1:17 pm
The High Dials have not only continued to title songs as if they're a prog-rock band (um, "Master Of The Clouds?"), but they're still in love with silken harmonies and Brit-pop. Don't love them because they're from sexy Montreal, do it because these Teenage Fanclub worshippers spike their warm songs with a treasure chest of sounds: a...
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The High Dials — Fields In Glass EP

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By David Missio (CHARTattack) July 27, 2004 2:11 pm
While "Fields In Glass" is a good song, did it really warrant a re-release almost a year after the concept album A New Devotion featured it as a single? The High Dials’ Fields In Glass EP features three different mixes of the single that helped get the time warped Montrealers noticed last year. The three mixes do very little to actually...
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Song Of The Day: The High Dials' "Chinese Boxes"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 12, 2010 2:54 pm
Montreal's High Dials are back and will release their fourth studio album, Anthems For A Doomed Youth, on Nov. 2. "Chinese Boxes" mixes the atmospheric post-punk of The Cure with Trevor Anderson's gritty, Elvis Costello-esque voice and Replacements era indie pop. There's also something vaguely R.E.M.-sounding about the track, too. Anthems For A...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 5, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 5, 2010 12:05 pm
Jason Collett will release Pony Tricks, an album of 11 acoustic versions of his songs, next Tuesday. He'll also tour across Canada to promote it. —Arts & Crafts Brokencyde have released a new song called "Teach Me How To Scream." Brokencyde need no lessons with that, but they do need to be taught how to make good music. My ears also need to be...
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The High Dials — "Killer Of Dragons"

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By CHARTattack Staff February 16, 2010 1:22 pm
The High Dials' video for Moon Country's "Killer Of Dragons" features the band as 17th-century minstrels, pilgrims and Redcoats while a Gandalf-esque wizard attempts to, yes, kill a dragon. They're like Sir Robin's minstrels in Monty Python And The Holy Grail, except the old man doesn't wet himself out of fear when he's in danger....
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Ex-High Dial Forms Elephant Stone

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 24, 2009 4:08 pm
Ex-High Dials bassist/sitarist Rishi Dhir's new band, Elephant Stone, will release their The Seven Seas debut on May 5 through Elephants On Parade. The nine-track album was produced by The Besnard Lakes' Jace Lasek at Montreal's Breakglass Studios last summer. It features guest appearances from members of The High Dials, The Besnard Lakes and...
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High Dials Trip Through Moon Country

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 2, 2008 3:04 pm
Montreal's The High Dials will unleash more of their neo-psychedelic pop when they independently release Moon Country on Sept. 23. The album was produced by Joseph Donovan (Sam Roberts, The Dears) and was recorded in a stone cottage in Ireland and the band's hometown. Moon Country will simulate a vinyl LP by placing silence between "Seagull...
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Country Mystic

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Photographer: 
Hannah Guy
Venue: 
N/A
City: 
Port Burwell
Date: 
August 25, 2003

The High Dials Provide Canadian Content On Psychedelic Compilation

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) September 8, 2006 5:30 pm
In what its touting as the "best compilation album ever made bar none," U.K. label Northern Star Records has compiled 33 tracks of psychedelic rock on the two-disc Psychedelica Volume One. "None of these bands sound anything like each other, yet they're classed as psychedelia," Northern Star co-founder Scott Causer told...
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ChartAttack @ The Drake: Sept. 2006

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Drake Underground
City: 
Toronto, ON
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August 27, 2006
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ChartAttack @ The Drake: Sept. 2006

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Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Drake Underground
City: 
Toronto, ON
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August 27, 2006
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ChartAttack @ The Drake: Sept. 2006

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Drake Underground
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
August 27, 2006
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ChartAttack @ The Drake: Sept. 2006

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Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Drake Underground
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
August 27, 2006
The High Dials

ChartAttack @ The Drake: Sept. 2006

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Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Drake Underground
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
August 27, 2006
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The High Dials Kick Arse in Austin, Release New EP And Tour With Neko Case

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) March 24, 2006 6:00 pm
Montreal psychedelic wonders The High Dials played a slew of successful shows at this year's South By Southwest Music Festival and are now aiming for musical holy ground with a new EP and the opening slot on Neko Case's North American tour. The rock 'n' roll foursome performed six shows in four days in Austin, Texas during SXSW in their fourth...
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The High Dials Launch War Of The Wakening Phantoms

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By Lorraine Carpenter (CHARTattack) June 6, 2005 3:00 pm
A long time ago, in bars and clubs not far from my apartment, a rebel trio revived the mod and soul sounds of the '60s with hooks and honey-coated melodies as tight and stylish as their button-down suits (and about half as expensive). The band was The Datsons, three Montrealers on a mission to pay homage to the spirit of classic rock 'n' roll...
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Brian Jonestown Massacre Play Renegade Show At Wilderbeat Festival

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) August 20, 2003 4:00 pm
Amidst the blackout chaos, low attendance and some devious local politicking working against them, organizers of the Wilderbeat mod/garage/psych festival definitely learned about bad luck the hard way. The Brit-pop kids of Toronto's Blow Up scene are generally too precious by half, so asking them to rough it in the wilderness for three days...
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Anton Newcombe at Wilderbeat (photo by Hannah Guy)
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