Another Form of Relief

The Superfantastics are a two-piece from Nova Scotia. That’s in Canada you know. You probably do, but I didn’t until thirty seconds ago, so I’m sharing that with anyone else out there who may not know. Anyway, they play in the rather White Stripes like setup of Matthew doing the vocals and guitar while Stephanie handles drums and the occasional vocals. Unlike The White Stripes though, they aren’t shit. Hurrah!

These are solid, upbeat pop songs that are over far too quickly. ‘What Will You Do Now?’ (original title ‘Theodore Tugboat, What Will You Do Now?’) is their first single, from late last year. It’s pretty minimalist to start, as a band with two members often would be, but then seems to kick into high gear for the last third. All of which gives the whole exercise a far richer feel. I have no idea if these guys are getting much ‘buzz’ within their local scene, but I could only find one other blog that had written about them. Which is a shame, as these songs really do deserve some attention.

MP3 The Superfantastics - What Will You Do Now?
MP3 The Superfantastics - Tapestry

The Superfantastics: Website || Myspace

This isn’t the post that I intended to start the new year with. My original plan was to write up this small New Years mix thing of about five songs which would contain the stream of consciousness from five different characters, each reflecting the dispositions of the songs to the event. So we’d have the optimist with Semisonic’s ‘This Will Be My Year’, the pessimist with Hello Saferide’s ‘2006′, the guy who is indifferent with Death Cab’s ‘The New Year’ and so on. Which I thought was a pretty cool idea, but it’s already the third and my hosting isn’t letting me put up the files, so maybe next year or something. I then was going to do this weeks Way Back Whensday post, but the hosting thing is stopping me putting up the song for that too, which makes things rather awkward. Hopefully that’ll follow in a few hours or something though.