Phèdre, DOOMSQUAD

The seeds for Phèdre were sown in an attic, over three late summer nights and hundreds of bottles of cheap wine. Loosely inspired by both Greek mythology, and the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood duet "Some Velvet Morning", Phèdre is Hooded Fang's front man Daniel Lee, bassist April Aliermo and whichever friends they kidnap for some guest appearances.
Since dropping their first record in early 2012, they have played shows with Ariel Pink and opened for Omar Souleyman. Phèdre spent the gloomiest months of winter 2013 in Berlin, writing and recording their album, Golden Age. They are ripe from a two month Tour that took them to places like Iceland, Mexico and Russia.

Dark new agers DOOMSQUAD re-code the electronic music narrative with a more worldly and cosmological presence than the genre would normally dictate. Their songs are rich in variance and full of vividness, spanning across their entire debut LP Kalaboogie (released February 2014 via Hand Drawn Dracula CAN/US, No Pain In Pop UK/EU). Drawing in guitar, flute, percussion and synth, the Montreal and Toronto-based siblings Allie, Jaclyn and Trevor Blumas act as aural anthropologists, teaming relics of cross cultural traditions like chanting and repetition over seismic ripples of deep bass. Doomsquad’s mixing of influences leaves you feeling awakened.