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AMERICAN DEVICES- Game 7"
American Devices are the best Montreal has to offer and have been since 1979. As once put by esteemed string strangler Chris Burns : The pairing of Trembles/Labelle guitar stylings rank up there with Reed/Morrison, Quine/Julian, Verlaine/Lloyd, Thunders/Sylvain, Ivy/Gregory, Ivy/Powers, Moore/Ranaldo, Young/Whitten, Leary/Haynes, Mercer/Million or any of the Beefheart duos. These 2 new tunes are the Devices in top form, widdled by time to the essential 4-part unit. Both songwriters deliver in their respective lanes, and the rythm section kicks the can along with inventive gusto. In a warped world, American Devices oeuvre would be life bending fodder for international bonehead punks, b-movie fanatics and prog nerds alike, but in this reality, they are banished to a profitless deal on the world's least respected underground records label. Lucky for us, misery loves company.Rob Labelle on guitar & vocals, Rick Trembles on guitar & vocals, André Asselin on bass, & Howard Chackowicz on drums. Backup vocals by Raph Bard. Both songs recorded and mixed by Ian Booth at Studio Hot Biscuit during 2022. Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket in 2023.