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About Me


Listen to "War of the Wakening Phantoms" featuring 'The Holy Ground' as heard on the Rogers ad!
Listen to "Field in Glass" EP
Listen to "A New Devotion"
High Dials press kit
The High Dials have released two albums on Rainbow Quartz records and toured North America and the UK with Neko Case and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Here's what the press says about their last album, War of the Wakening Phantoms: "Psych pop perfection"
8/10 - NME (UK) "The golden era of Canadian cool continues apace"
The Sun (UK) "(Songs) breathe new life into pops tired romantic lexicon"
4 stars - The Independent (UK) "Dazzling second album"
4 stars - UNCUT "An entire pop album of psychedelic superhits: instantly hummable, easily digestible, completely candy-coated and totally fucking sweet."
20 best albums of 2005 - MAGNET "The sound of a band discovering its soul and creating something beautiful and big... this album will blow you away"
4 ½ stars - ALL MUSIC GUIDE "Their sunburst melodies sound arena-big"
Recommended - SPIN 10 best albums of 2005 - Washington Post "Close breathy harmonies, dreamy pop collages and intelligent wordplay deceptively beautiful psychedelia and the smart, sardonic asides... An enigmatic song suite where the phantoms of the title aren't the kind that go bump in the night, but are the ghosts of lost love and innocence. If nothing else, this record is a compelling journey through heartbreak."
ALBUM OF THE WEEK - Rough Trade Website "An immaculate, narcotic pop record"
The Globe and Mail (Canada) "Captivating, border-line hypnotic and downright cinematic"
Canadian Music Network "This music is for right here, right now and all-time - classic rock in the greatest sense of the term."
5 stars, Top ten albums of 2005 - Montreal Gazette "If youre not already in love, this album approximates its euphoric stupor. Hell, Montreals High Dials may change your life."
4 Stars - NOW Magazine (Toronto) "Everything that great rock and roll was meant to be: euphoric, pained, sweet, dark, dangerous, passionate, surprising and wholly addictive."
4 ½ Stars - Ottawa Citizen I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/19/2004
Band Website: thehighdials.com
Band Members: Trevor Anderson - Vocals, Guitar
Robbie MacArthur - Guitar
Eric Dougherty - Keys, Backing Vocals
Max Hebert - Drums

Influences: the beatles, the kinks, the zombies, motown, blur, brian jonestown massacre, rolling stones, the cure, flaming lips, pretty things, ride, teenage fanclub, leonard cohen, wilco, pink floyd, the smiths, james, beach boys, doves, the wedding present, flying burrito brothers, magnetic fields, thin lizzy, the byrds, the who, the la's, donovan, the verve, jimi hendrix experience, super furry animals, stax, the supremes, love, the small faces, stone roses, buzzcocks, charlatans, my bloody valentine, the waterboys, the boo radleys, incredible string band, elliott smith, supergrass, the creation, the action, t-rex, primal scream, curtis mayfield, bob dylan, the clash, fleetwood mac, velvet underground, psych, soul, irish, country, folk and so on...
Sounds Like: escape!
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Two new songs!

Hey all- We added a couple of new songs from Moon Country today: "Killer of Dragons" (from Side A) and "Invisible Choirs" (from Side B). Hope you enjoy! You can also sneak a listen to "Book of t...
Posted by the High Dials on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:17:00 PST

Advance peek at Moon Country

Over the next few weeks we'll be uploading some Mp3s from the new album "Moon Country". We're going to be releasing the album in two parts, "Side A" and "Side B", because we like having silence betwee...
Posted by the High Dials on Mon, 19 May 2008 12:35:00 PST

New songs...

...will be posted here any day now! Stay tuned...
Posted by the High Dials on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:56:00 PST

Mixing news

Hey everyone, Sorry if we have appeared to be missing in action for a while. We took a bit of a break after recording the final tracks on our new songs. Trevor went to the jungle and helped destroy a ...
Posted by the High Dials on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:50:00 PST

Special Holy Ground EP finally released

Hey all, We hope this update finds you lounging under some pines near a nice cool lake somewhere. We're stuck in the city, busy in the studio once again. "Moon Country," the new album, is taking shape...
Posted by the High Dials on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:50:00 PST

Holy Ground Video

Dear friends, Check out the recently completed video for The Holy Ground, produced and directed by Mila Aung-Thwin. It's just been uploaded onto the myspace page. Live footage was shot in 2005 with th...
Posted by the High Dials on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:52:00 PST

More High Dials on television

If hearing "The Holy Ground" pounding behind that dude travelling through Asia in the Rogers ad just doesn't satisfy your need for the High Dials through tv speakers, we direct you to this w...
Posted by the High Dials on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:03:00 PST

Be the Webmaster

As you have probably noticed, our official website (www.thehighdials.com), has been "under construction" for some time, reason being, we all got bored with the design and were having trouble getting s...
Posted by the High Dials on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:15:00 PST

On Love and changes

Happy (my) bloody Valentine's Day friends and fans! Get some chocolate and lose yourself in the ecstasies of the brain's most terrifying and exhilarating ordeal and/or source material for High Dials a...
Posted by the High Dials on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:38:00 PST

The Latest

Hey friends and fans-   We've just finished 3 songs with Joseph Donovan, who co-produced "War of the Wakening Phantoms". The song titles are: "My Heart Is Pinned To Your Sleeve", "Clare" and "The...
Posted by the High Dials on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:11:00 PST