on canvas are somewhere in between noise & melody, caressing & in-your-face, electro and guitar music, waste & poetry. Indie cuts short, pop understates, noise overlooks the melody and rock sounds definitely too straight.
on canvas is not about swaying through life in 4/4 time. Something is being developed, somewhat built. The existing and well known is being caved-in, however not in order to destroy, but to rebuild it in a different way. Something is interrupted, one is surprised by the unexpected. The audience is not being taken at hand, to show it something that it already knows. It is called on to get involved, to listen and to lurk for something to dance to. Indie serves as fundament without sounding like a track-top. This music is not linear, but stuffed with rough edges and it touches, because it is honest. just as noisy, as raving, as fragile, as warm, as tragic and as happy as your life.
While the tour-bus-radio plays Delbo, bloc party, The Fall of Troy and Anticon stuff, feedback often includes names like At the Drive-In, Fugazi and Minus the Bear.
we have been seen with the likes of: chikinki, somebody still loves you boris yeltsin, future of the left, klez.e, the gaslight anthem and other grandiose bands.
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"on canvas sound roughly as if Steve Albini would have stolen the Scotsmen Mogwai, all their effect pedals and dropped them in front of Fugazi's feet. Colourful gleaming noise, dodgy rhythms, up piling guitar walls and tiny electrical details. […] A band that does not spurn the spirit of "Do it Yourself!", the actual basis of indie-rock, but rather performs it in its plainest.. pureness. "Mal du Pays" is the title of their new EP and sounds according to the previous lines: real!"
r o t e r a u p e
"This is what you can call a more than successful EP. on canvas definitely belong to the good guys and that these four gentlemen understand their handcraft as well as production is well shown on "Mal du Pays". on canvas perform post-punk with an electronic impact and indie attitude. […] Who climbs high could fall far. Who doesn't climb cannot lose anything. But if someone does not abstain from off-key choirs on a self-produced EP should therefore be complimented. I hope an entire album will be released soon."
h u r r i c a n e b a r
"Guitarist & producer Nils Wittrock made sure that this 'compulsive- indie' is settled on quite a high level. On a ramble via several epochs of music history on canvas on "Mal du Pays" first meets Joy Division, knock on Ian MacKay?s Fugazi's door and don't even stop before editors - guitars. Somewhere between indie and post punk these four guys from Bremen establish their alcove."
h i f i f i & s t e r e r o
"Boys keep going like that and your album will be a screamer!"
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newcomer album of the month /// march 2008
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