Lookin’ ghostly
Halifax ex-pats Play Guitar (the band currently lives in Montreal, but their hearts are still in Halifax) are returning with Special Noise (April 25 at Tribeca) for a special occasion. Play Guitar are releasing a cassette on Montreal label Campaign for Infinity. “At first it was supposed to be a single for one of the songs from our record,” says guitarist and vocalist Christian Simmons. “We’ve been working on an album in Halifax for about a year and a half now. It’s more or less finished, but we knew we wouldn’t have a chance to release it properly in time for our next tour, so we thought of something to do with the songs we recorded but aren’t going to put on the full-length. We don’t write many short songs, and I think all of them are on this tape.” Play Guitar’s songs are spooky and melodic, and so catchy you may want to bore a hole in your skull, Zeus-style, in an effort to stop humming them constantly. Soon you won’t have to worry and can pop in either their new cassette or their upcoming 12’’ whenever you feel like it, though. “We’re making the final, final, final revisions to the album’s mix while we’re home for a few days, and then it’s being mastered by Bob Weston in May. We’re still trying to figure out if we can swing the trip to Chicago to be there for it. Either way we’re pretty excited about it, “ says Simmons. “The 12″ will be co-released by Noyes in our neck of the woods, and Coraille out of Berlin. The Germans said as sort of a condition of releasing the album that we have to go play there, and we said “great!” So now we’re working out the details of a trip to Europe in the fall. Special Noise is going to come with us so it’s got to be the best times for all of us.”
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
