While I was letting my iPod shuffle through its contents the other day, a song popped up that I hadn’t listened to before. That doesn’t happen very often, but every once in a while I’ll come across something that’s new. I suppose it’s part of consuming music in volume; there’s not enough time in the day for me to listen to everything I want, and the necessity to move the conversation along results in things being missed.
As it were, Winter Gloves finally reached out of the depths of the gigabytes and made me pay attention. Their jagged post-garage, bolstered by a buzzy synth is entertaining; i listened to “Factories” about a half a dozen times, one after another, and when I got home, the track found itself another home on my running iPod.
And that’s all I need the Montreal, QC outfit for, really. It doesn’t all need to be free jazz or art-rock. Some tracks, some bands are good at face value – just as they are – and this is one of them. Looking into them further, I found that they were more talked about early in 2009, but we weren’t a blog then, so I’m absolving us of a missed opportunity. Their purported website is no longer functioning, but their MySpace has a few scattered dates listed, and bears the caption that they are “recording new songs !!!” With their next release, I’ll make sure to be more on top of things.
Winter Gloves – Factories (mp3) from About a Girl
Winter Gloves – Let Me Drive (mp3) from About a Girl
