Saturday 08 May 2010 - Total Running Time::03:53 m/s

Library Voices is a eight piece pop collective from Regina, Saskatchewan. Blending tremolo soaked guitars with analog synths, vintage organs, circuit bent electronics, accordion, saxophone, strings, theremin, Tenori-on, and glockenspiel, their songs play out like an AM radio jingle; mixing the best

Since forming in spring of 2008, the group has operated at a feverish pace. They've been heralded by SPIN as an "undiscovered band you need to hear now". They have been featured in The New Yorker. They have shared the stage with Stars, Chad Vangaalen, Plants & Animals, and Blitzen Trapper. They have performed at Sled Island, Regina Folk Festival, WCMA, CMW, and Ness Creek. They've received generous airplay on the CBC and BBC, reaching 3 on the Radio 3 charts and breaking the top 30 on Canadian campus radio. They also won a Radio 3 Bucky award, have been mugged twice, and had their van robbed once.

The band's debut full length, Denim On Denim, hit stores back in April and was a significantly different affair than what was showcased to fans on recent tours. After a month of recording what Library Voices thought was a completed album, everything in their songbook was either scrapped or remade. "We ended up leaving on a tour a year and a half ago with a record we thought was pretty much done," says Dawson. "When we got back, after playing the songs live, we ended up going back to the studio and remixing it and adding a couple of tracks. It's a process that dragged out longer than it should have. "We stepped back and looked at it, and in retrospect, it wasn't the album we wanted to make."

"Library Voices give pop a good name! Mixing classic influences (The Kinks, The Zombies) with a more contemporary indie-pop collective aesthetic they have managed to craft a handful of timeless tunes that couldn't exist anytime but right now. While unexpected mid-song disintegrations and perfectly imperfect gang vocals add a nice seasoning to their mix, it's their ability to never lose sight of the song that makes this so vital." ~ Sled Island Festival 08 (Calgary)

Official Website:
thelibraryvoices.blogspot.com

Myspace:
myspace.com/thelibraryvoices