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No Contest

04:04 | 2821 plays | Dec 10 2008

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Picastro
Become Secret
LP: $14
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Whore Luck
CD + Instant MP3: $10
MP3: $5
Picastro
Metal Cares
CD + Instant MP3: $10
MP3: $8
Picastro
Red Your Blues
CD: $12

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General Info

  • Genre: Folk / Gothic / Other

    Location Toronto, Ontario, Ca

    Profile Views: 157407

    Last Login: 2/5/2012

    Member Since 4/25/2005

    Website www.picastro.net--HIJACKED! Thanks a lot Wild West

    Record Label Polyvinyl, Monotreme, Alien 8 & Block Recording Club

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ......No Contest........ .. .. .. .. .. ........ ......Hortur Video.... .... .. .. .. .. .......... "If it's a subtle edge you seek, something slightly askew within otherwise solid and sweet orchestration, you may have found it here." ..-POP MATTERS.. .... "Picastro does what Billy Corgan has futilely tried to master for more than a decade: make scary and realistic sorrow seem like pop". ..-COMES WITH A SMILE.. .... "If quiet is indeed the new loud, Picastro are todays answer to Black Sabbath". ..-CHART ATTACK.. .... "Ostensibly a vehicle for singer-songwriter Liz Hysen, Toronto based Picastro weave her songs into an abstract framework of extended, moody soundtracks. Here the singers identity is absorbed into the overall impression left by the music. Reported comparisons with Cat Power are therefore wide of the mark. Hysens role is oddly selfless, her voice subdued to a general murmur amid the musics burgeoning drama. The songs are instead a vehicle for the group to expand their vocabulary, creating a gloomy variant of folk blues with a wide reach. Once the context within which Hysen as singer and author is established, the lack of lyrical clarity or a firm songwriting identity no longer matters". ..-THE WIRE.. .... ........ ....

  • Members

    Current: Liz Hysen, Nick Storring, Brandon Valdivia, Stephanie Vittas, Anthony Saunders. Previous: Owen Pallett, Rachel McBride, Evan Clarke, catl, Kurt Newman, Zak Hanna.

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