Parades

 Foreign Tapes

 1. Dead Nationale
2. Hunters
3. Past Lives
4. Invaders (Review)
5. Springboarder
6. Lung Full Of Light
7. Loserspeak In New Tongue
8. Tripping Over Your Eyes
9. Marigold
10. Vulturehood

Parades are an outfit that list four members on their inside sleeve of their album but sound like a small army on wax. Bold, startling, awe-inspiring and genuinely heartfelt, Foreign Tapes is an astonishingly accomplished record that I just never wanted to end.  A band whose proficiency at a huge range of styles is second only to their ability to craft memorable melodies and the kind of harmonies that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and cheer in approval. These are tracks that didn’t drop out of the sky; they’re mapped out and executed with such skill that half the time they still sound spontaneous.

They also introduce a whole new side to Modular’s star signing, Jonathan Boulet, who produced this suite of songs as well as playing drums on them and arguably establishes himself as a musical force to be reckoned with. Parades are a posse who appreciate that the most talented are only as good as the company they keep. To this end, they ring-in a seemingly never-ending stream of friends, two female vocalists and three brass players, to pad out a sound which already wipes the floor with the competition. You could say they sound like Radiohead, Pink Floyd or even current touring partners, The Seabellies. But really, they sound like nothing else around. Which is fair enough; it’s always hard to define the sound of the future.

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