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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The High Dials - Oisin, My Bastard Brother + Killer Of Dragons

Posted 9/15/2008 11:00 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: psych, americana, pop, rock, Samuel Duke

Almost four years ago at SXSW, after a long day spent collecting nothing but Tecate, hot sauce and ear damage, I managed to wearily see the High Dials on the insistence of a good friend. I think he’d managed to hear about them because he spent most of his week busking on the street for food, change, grass, or whatever and someone friendly had told him they were worth checking out. We were expecting the obligatory plug-in-and-play, twenty-minute SXSW set but what we managed to catch was a group of Canadians blowing the roof off the place like some psychedelic preachers of good vibery. They rocked the whole five-REALLY-normal-looking-dudes-playing-rock-music steez that Dr. Dog does so well but, instead of steeping it in loose Americana, sounded like they’d spent years tripping out to the baroque textures and harmonies of Fleetwood Mac and Love. Now the Montreal dudes are prepping their second LP Moon Country (out September 23 through Fontana) and today you can grab the album’s first single “Killer Of Dragons”—think a postmodern “Don’t Come Around Here No More” played by MGMT—as well as an exclusive track, “Oisin, My Bastard Brother”, which sounds like Duane Eddy playing with the New Pornographers. Grab them both below and check upcoming tour dates from the band (including a Brooklyn gig with Brian Jonestown) at their MySpace.

Sounds like: Dr. Dog, Fleetwood Mac, Drug Rug

Exclusive Download: The High Dials - Oisin, My Bastard Brother

Download: The High Dials - Killer Of Dragons

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