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The Diableros
You Can’t Break the Strings of Our Olympic Hearts
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Meet the next big thing. The Diableros’ self-released debut, You Can’t Break the Strings of Our Olympic Hearts, is so far only available in four stores in the entire world – all of them hipster shops in their hometown Toronto – but the city’s weekly magazines are already touting them as their answer to the Arcade Fire.
Track listing:
01 Working Out the Words
02 Push It to Monday
03 Tropical Pets
04 Sugar Laced Soul
05 No Weight
06 Olympic Island
07 Trough the Foam
08 Smash the Clock
09 Golden Gates
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It’s easy to see where the comparison comes from. With its staccato guitars, looping basslines, and straight-forward beats, YCBTSOOOH is an album that is begging to be compared with Funeral. But where Montreal’s indie darlings go for orchestral grandeur, Toronto’s prefer a tighter, leaner, coil of energy. In fact, thanks to those punchy guitars and the mumbled, distortion-singed vocals, one can just as easily compare them to the Strokes – albeit with a little less New-York-City-too-cool-for-you attitude and a little more we-live-in-a-country-with-universal-healthcare celebration. (It’s probably the organs.)
The Diableros are obviously in good company, and they hold their own. The album opener, “Working Out the Words,” sounds like it could have come right off Is This It and the stand-out tracks like “Sugar Laced Soul” will bounce around inside your skull long after the radio has stopped blaring, the CD has stopped spinning or the iPod has stopped, um, reading the file.
But is it as good as Funeral, or Is This It? Not quite. While exciting, it lacks the majesty of Funeral or the consistent hooks of Is This It.
As for the hype? It will be interesting to watch. With Canadian indie all the rage these days, Toronto’s critics are anxious to reclaim their city’s traditional place at the centre of the nation’s music scene. Are they over-hyping in their eagerness? Or is there still a huge appetite out there for anyone who can reflect the glory of the Arcade Fire? We’ll get the first big piece of the answer when the album is released nationwide on February 21st.
-Adam Bunch 02/14/06
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