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The Torrent

About Me


Ben Rayner at the Toronto Star wrote:
The first full-length from the dark-witted Toronto duo of Michael Barry and Cameron Groves is a sexy/nasty slab of droning electro-pop sleaze, and my new favourite thing. Imagine Beat Happening, A Place to Bury Strangers and the Neon Judgement doing lots of drugs together in a Hamburg fetish bar and you'll get the gist of this dour gem. Acidic monotone vocals, battering drum-machine beats and a whole lotta art-house style caught in a radioactive glow of sawing violin and over-cranked guitar. If "Catherine Deneuve" and "Big Fires" don't make you wanna pogo, there's something fundamentally wrong with you, and "The Tunnel" is just freakin' evil. (April 26, 2009)
MP3s at and Amazon
Buy the CD at CDBaby or get it at Toronto record stores:
Soundscapes, 572 College, 416-537-1620
Hits and Misses, 860 Bloor West, 416-535-7817
Life Boat and Leopold Bloom are now available as free downloads through Blocks Recording Club's Facebook group. They'll be part of a vinyl compilation LP called Building Blocks Digital Singles Club Vol. 1, out in the fall.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/10/2006
Band Website: www.thetorrent.net
Band Members: Michael Barry - Electric Guitar/Vocals
Cameron Groves - Vox/Violin/Machines

Influences: Can Neu! CometsOnFire Sparks Kraftwerk Jesus&MaryChain Deerhoof TheSonics TheVelvetUnderground Oneida RichardHell SonicYouth EraseErrata JoyDivision DeadKennedys BadBrains Germs GiorgioMoroder Bach
Sounds Like: You tell us
Record Label: Tetrapod Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Half a Man goes to New Zealand

DJ Indie Slut in Christchurch included The Torrent on his radio show and podcast, Human Pleasurehttp://www.rdu.org.nz/74.html http://humanpleasure.p odomatic.com/ 
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 08:30:00 GMT

Leonora Moreno on the campus charts

The week ending May 12th, Leonora Moreno debuted on these charts:CHMR St. John's - #3CFBU St. Catharines - #14CKXU Lethbridge - #6CJSW Calgary - #7 (electronic)
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Life Boat is number 8 at Exclaim

Life Boat, "a delicious bit of downer pop" according to Cam Lindsay of Exclaim, turned up at number 8 in the Click Hears Ten Most Popular list in Exclaims May print edition.
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 07:56:00 GMT

Leonora Moreno at iTunes and Amazon

Now you can get the MP3s at and Or buy the CD at It's also at Toronto record stores:Soundscapes, 572 College, 416-537-1620Hits and Misses, 860 Bloor West, 416-535-7817
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 18:47:00 GMT

NxEW says Leonora Moreno is crazy good

http://www.nxew.ca/2009/05/review-torrents-debut-lorena-more no.html
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 22:48:00 GMT

Life Boat and Leopold Bloom at the Free Music Archive

Blocks has uploaded the two singles The Torrent did for Building Blocks Digital Singles Club to the Free Music Archive. The FMA is an interactive library of legal audio downloads, directed by indepede...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:34:00 GMT

Toronto Star: Leonora Moreno is one of Ben Rayner's reasons to live

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/624240
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:02:00 GMT

Exclaim reviews Life Boat & Leopold Bloom

http://exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx? csid1=131&csid2=804&fid1=37745
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:01:00 GMT

Free downloads from Building Blocks Digital Singles Club

BUILDING BLOCKS DIGITAL SINGLES CLUB presents The Torrent's"Life Boat" b/w "Leopold Bloom."Go to:http://www.blocksblocksblocks.com/download-codes/Click on The Torrent link. Heres the password info:Us...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:56:00 GMT