I'm not really sure where to start.
We've been a band since 2001, though our progress was largely glacial until the release of "An Episode of Sparrows", our debut full-length. Prior to that, we spent alot of time rejecting songs, changing guitar players and deeply doubting ourselves. We went on a couple of brief, financially disastrous tours that no one saw. There was definitely a 7" involved at some point.
Eventually, we mustered up some purpose, recorded a CD ("An Episode of Sparrows"), and then started functioning somewhat like a legitimate band. Since then, we have been touring as much as possible and we released another disc (a split CD with our friend Jason). This September, we are putting out our second full-length CD ("An Illusion Against Death", produced by Weakerthans frontman John Samson) and an accompanying EP should show up in the following months. 2007/08 should see much more touring to go with the new records. You should probably come see us; we are inexpensive and, according to some biased reports, quite enchanting. You may also be eligible to get University credit for attending twenty or more of our concerts and critiquing them viciously on message boards; please see your crochety old headmaster for details.
Before continuing, I would just like to say that bios are extremely difficult to write, due to the fact that you are forced to make quite a few judgement calls on your actions that you are probably massively unqualified to make. Either that, or you can pretend that you are a different person while writing your bio and it comes off really stiff and empty. Or you can just write a bunch of nonsense and expose the format for what it is (an advertisment) while concurrently advertising for yourself, although that form of subversion is rapidly becoming transparent, too.
So, in summation: we are some friends that play music. We love music. We love playing music, and we love playing it for you. We love that we get to travel to different places to do so. Also, life is awesome. Oh, yeah, and we're from Winnipeg, which is totally in Canada. I think that's basically it.Listen to all of our music in streaming audio HERE.
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