Following up previous collaborations, Toronto-based Janine Stoll
joins forces with two members of Afrobeat band Mr. Something Something
in The DoneFors. The songs on How to Have Sex With Canadians are
dreamlike concoctions that move along crisply with just a hint of the
exotic. “Mouth Full of Marbles” wraps a metaphor-drenched narrative
with contraband and a guillotine around a hypnotic hook. Stoll gets
sultry on a few numbers that could use a horn or two for ambience.
Unrequited love, in “The Last Thing You Do,” combines streaking and
stalking in hopes the object of her affection will see her on the TV
news. Such a tale needs crazier music.
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2009.