It's a particular feeling, and you know the one. Night sky,
smokestacks, street-lights, shouts. Office towers turned into mirror
walls, and trees' leaves gone grey in the dark. Receivers' music is
the dense, noir melancholy of electric guitar and electronics; it's
the lull and lullaby of Emilie Marzinotto's voice. It's alienation,
hope, and back-lit dream.
Receivers are a five-piece founded in Montreal in the 21st century.
Their debut album, Consider the Ravens, is out now. They have played
with bands such as Beach House, the Clientele, Sam Roberts, and Fleet
Foxes. And they are nocturnal.
"Receivers' song-ciphers don't give up their secrets easily, but ... the bewitching power of Emilie Marzinotto's dispassionate croon and the spacious arrangements is hard to deny" ****
- Montreal Gazette, Jordan Zivitz
"It's a music that oscillates from lazy, black matte beauty to abrupt and glittering violence; chimes of synth and electric guitar alongside Marzinotto's nightingale voice"
- AjiSignal, blog
"wow-jeez Receivers played probably the best set i had ever heard, shooting for stars, and as a monk would say "holy f'n s"
- Said the Gramophone, blog
"Une pop dense et sentie qui, par ses detours psychedeliques et ses guitares dream pop, brille d'une touchante profondeur" ****/2
- ICI, Stephane Campbell
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Yea guys... good set at The Underground! Happy to have helped you guys out, clearly worth the time... our bands are always up for MTL, so let us know and we'll be there... xo
That was a great set at The Velvet Underground. Blissed-out atmospherics where shoegazing, dream-pop, and trip-hop collide to create a lighter-than-air kaleidoscope of noise. Shimmering and cinematic, Emilie weaves a sci-fi mural with her vocals, fronting a delicious hybrid of traditional trance-pop and guitar-driven soundscapes, without sounding derivative. Solid band.
That was a great set at Rancho Relaxo, a swirling soundtrack of melancholy and euphoria, blurring the lines between dream-pop and indie, shoegaze and trip-hop, dangerously delectable. This is fluid and potent strong structure that just whispers intensity.
