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hello-cthulhu
They were from Canada, so technically this would be "new wave from the provinces." And I'd see them more as shoegaze, or perhaps proto-shoegaze, though you could also tie them to the more jangle-rock of Manchester bands or the Australian band, the Church. I don't think they were necessarily influenced by My Bloody Valentine or other contemporaries - maybe they were - but I saw them more as a case of convergent evolution, arriving at many of the same ideas that we'd see bands like Ride, Blind Mr. Jones, Kitchens of Distinction, Chapterhouse, Drop Nineteens, among others, developing more fully in the early 90s.
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Ricro
Ah alright. My bad. Of course they are canadian. But nope, buddy, shoegaze is a complete different thing. And it has also nothing to do with psychedelic rock like by the Church. I dont really know what your rambling here is about, as you go all over the place and dont seem to know anything about the evolution of music styles but well... you seem to want to prove desperately that you know some names of bands.So ... well, here you go.
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hello-cthulhu
Err, okay then. I'm no expert. If I'm apt to draw connections between things in music that aren't there, I guess there are worse things to be guilty of. I tend to see the terms people throw around - shoegaze, dream pop, new wave, post-punk, whatever - as very general, with blurry edges, and with a lot of overlap. Sadly, that's the only language we have for it. All I know here is, I like this band, and I think it's a shame both that they weren't better known in their time, and that they lasted for such a brief stretch. And I think they anticipated certain things other bands were later seen as innovative for doing.
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