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WHOLE is an AudioVisual Experience from RUM DO

Happy New Year!

2024 is here and we've got a bunch of content on the way for you, starting today.

Back in 2017 the debut EP from RUM DO, lay down, lovers [SS101] was our very first release here at Safe Sounds. The avant-garde pop duo released their third EP last year, You Just Have To Be.

WHOLE is a brand new video featuring the entire RUM DO discography with uncut visuals. It's perfect for ambient watching and listening... stick it on and let your mind wander across diverse landscapes, open your eyes for rushing colours and abstractions.

Ever since the start of the project, RUM DO's music has been released with abstract video. The final frame of one track always linked to the first frame of the next.

Finally WHOLE can now be experienced as it was always intended. The run time is 1 hour and 6 minutes.

I guess in some ways it's odd to mark the start of the new year with the death of a project. Harry Perry and Bill Cutbill will now focus on new musical ventures. After all, time is not infinite.

It feels fitting and romantic to wave goodbye to RUM DO in this moment. It's just the point from A to B.

With that, we place our feet firmly on the ground and start walking forward.

RUM DO ~ "an adjective meaning 'odd' or 'strange', and nothing to do with the drink rum."

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You Use It Like A Weapon

As another year closes in...

We are pleased to present Weapon, a live session filmed inside the bank vault here at Safe Sounds.

The track is taken from Breeze's latest record, Sour Grapes. You'll find Josh Korody front and centre of the band, surrounded by Robyn Phillips, Julia Wittmann, Braeden Craig and James Kearns.

The time and date the video was filmed is forever etched into the grainy CCTV camera footage you'll see within. It really was a joy watching Breeze perform these tracks up-close and personal, and we're stoked with how they turned out and what we were able to capture. A fragment in time.

You can enjoy a full playlist of all our live sessions here.

If you like what we do, please consider subscribing on YouTube and then systematically go through our entire video discography, liking and commenting on every single video we ever released. It really is the least you can do. After that, we suggest you write to your local MP to ask why American bands get a relative free pass to tour Canada, but Canadians have to pay a small fortune to tour the sanctity of the United States. Once he/she/they see the clear injustice of the situation, organize a meeting to discuss it in person, pausing to listen to them occasionally before suggesting vehemently that they lobby this matter urgently in parliament. Finally, close the door, but turn just before doing so and beg your MP to subscribe to our YouTube channel as well.

Sour Grapes is out now on Toronto label, Hand Drawn Dracula. The new wave / Britpop inspired album was recorded at Candle Recording studio and Hotel 2 Tango.

Grab a copy on hot wax at your local record store or online here.

StillWaves Join The Safe Sounds Family with It Still Burns

We're delighted to welcome StillWaves to the Safe Sounds family with the release of the debut single from their upcoming LP.

It Still Burns is a driving post-punk banger. When we first heard it, it evoked memories of bands like The Horrors (specifically their album Primary Colours, which still gets rotated here to this day).

After meeting head honcho, lead singer and bassist, Dan Carlyle, he professed his love for bands like Killing Joke, The Cure, and The Chameleons. It all adds up.

The debut LP, entitled Undiagnosed, will be released on limited edition pink cassette on 19th January 2024. The art features the late guitarist, Eric Pentz, who wrote the album alongside Carlyle. Andrew Heule is the drummer on the record.

Undiagnosed [SS122] is the first StillWaves album to be released by Safe Sounds.

Track listing ~

It Still Burns
Undiagnosed
I'm Haunted
Aurora, co
Scars Lie Below
Not Safe From Your Heart
Somewhere I'm Happy
Reform
Redlines

The LP cover photo is by Roy Cohen. The single art for It Still Burns is by Paul Grier.

Support It Still Burns on bandcamp. StillWaves will play a very special show on Saturday 20th January in Toronto - grab an advance ticket now.

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It's Christmas Time And You Need To Be Afraid

This Friday is A CLASSMAS CAROL which is a huge night of entertainment with a mega lineup of bands and comedians.

Bad Waitress, members of which you may have seen at our recent Geary Art Crawl showcase, will be rocking alongside Burner, Waste Youth and our very own, World News.

What is CLASS? Well here's what they have to say for themselves...

"Leave some cookies and cheap smokes out a few weeks earlier this year, because CLASS is racing down the chimney of The Garrison for A CLASSMAS Carol on December 8th.

We’ve spewed eggnog everywhere, stolen Frosty’s magical hat, and banned Rudolph from participating in any reindeer games. Have we lost the true meaning of the holidays?

Will Deshaun turn into Santa Tim Allen style? Come help Fezenezer Scrooge and The CLASS crew rediscover the spirit of the season, and rock out to a stocking over stuffed with music, stand up comedy, and art. Bah Humbug, I just sat in some hot cocoa."

Comedy will be served hot thanks to Ryan Dillon, Sima Sepehri, Sam Burns and Kari Johnson

Grab your tickets now on Eventbrite.

Your Grandad Record Release Show with Dig

Your Grandad are holding a very special event in Toronto to launch their debut self-titled album. It's going to be one hell of a party.

Your Grandad Record Release Show ~
Friday Nov 17th at The Monarch Tavern, Toronto
With support from Uncola & Miserable Weekend
Visuals by The Oscillitarium
Doors: 8PM
Advance Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/yo...
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/event...
Presented by DIG.

And if you happen to be over in Hamilton, they play there this Thursday at The Casbah!

Copies of the album will be available to purchase on shiny vinyl record at both the shows... we cannot waaaaait!

Did you check out the music video for Your Grandad yet??

Releases

Album
SS122
StillWaves
Undiagnosed
Album
SS121
Your Grandad
Your Grandad
Single
SS120C
Your Grandad
Your Grandad
Single
SS120B
Your Grandad
Poison
Single
SS120A
Your Grandad
CERB
EP
SS119
Dark Tapes · Bill Cutbill
OBELISK
EP
SS118
RUM DO
You Just Have To Be
Single
SS117
Theo Vandenhoff
Alles Ist Besser
EP
SS116
World News
New Era
Remix Single
SS115
World News
AMFTK
LP
SS114
Provincial Parcs
Scenic Equilibrium
Double A
SS113
Your Grandad
Juice Opinion / Fake News
Double A
SS112
Idious Carrie
O
EP
SS111
Theo Vandenhoff
Heartache Is An Empty Room
Double A
SS110
RUM DO
Confetti and... / A ↝ B
Remix Single
SS109
World News
Descenending
LP
SS108
Bill Cutbill
AMAZONAS
EP
SS107
Loji
Gather
EP
SS106
World News
The Chosen
Remix Single
SS105
World News
Black Cat
Single
SS104
Bill Cutbill
Joy Ride (and then I wake up)
Remix Single
SS103
World News
A Bit More Mellow Back Then
EP
SS102
RUM DO
Why
EP
SS101
RUM DO
lay down, lovers

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