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The Rest
Pop / Soul / Tropical

An Album, A Book...EP...forgetting something?



Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

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Member Since8/10/2005
Band Websitetherestmusic.com
Band MembersThe Rest:
Adam Bentley
Anna Jarvis
Blake Bowman
Dwayne Brydon
Jordan Mitchell
Matty Buzanko
Steve Jones

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Influences
The Rest
Everyone All at Once

Buy The CD
1. Coughing Blood / Fresh Mountain Air
2. Modern Time Travel (Necessities)
3. Sheep In Wolves' Clothing
4. Phonetically, Phonetically
5. Apples & Allergies
6. Drinking Again
7. Blossom Babies Part Two
8. Walk on Water (Auspicious Beginnings)
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Everything All At Once
a) The Last Great Cocoa Owl Job
b) In My Attic, Souvenirs
Sounds Like
The Rest
Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour

Buy The CD
1. The Close Western
2. Copying
3. Innocent Fools
4. Atlantis, Typhoon, Oh Our Saviour, Starving Bears! Dance! Dance! (an interpretation of "We Stole Your Grandma's Organ and Now it Can Dance")
5. Memories Like Photographs (An Icelandiguese Fable)
6. I Can Collect Popsicle Sticks, You Failed Hobbyist!
7. Nonsense
8. The Short Night/Strangers on a Train
9. A New Pair of Jeans (Acid Wash Mix)
10. Success
11. Bensalem
Record LabelAuteur(Canada), Something In Construction (UK)
Type of LabelIndie


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Nov 20 2009 8:00P
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Nov 29 2009 8:00P
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   About The Rest

Everyone All At Once

Members of The Rest have always used the band as an outlet for creative exploration. Band-related side projects provide excellent excuses for pulling mountains of paint onto ping-pong table canvases and immersing themselves in many other guilt-free, time-consuming, essential (possibly existential) distractions. These activities have unknowingly morphed to form a factory condition; frenetic assembly line album construction sessions, alcohol-fuelled manufacturing plant t-shirt frenzies, and night shift Alfred Hitchcock montage obsessions (The Lady Vanishes) Many of these leisure pursuits have taken on a life of their own and sprawled away from their original musical foundation. A few members started a record label (Auteur Recordings link), almost as a dare to one another; others parlayed their design capabilities into full time commitments, and some made beer, lots of beer.

Bass player Matty Buzanko apprenticed at a small brewery on the outskirts of Hamilton for three years with a man that puts the master into brew master. It wasn't long before Matty started making people swoon over his IPA, and hunger for his Scotch Ale. He has won national awards for his Buzanko Bitter and Chocolate Cherry Stout. The Rest began having parties/concerts/film nights/crafts and geeks workshops celebrating this barley business. (read more about beer HERE)

These gatherings have funded two records and an EP which is coming out in the New Year. The EP concept goes beyond the standard four song set-up to include a narrative account of the adult adventures of the boy who cried wolf, complete with surreal illustrations drawn by the band’s good friend MLXNDRSC. (Cried Wolf Book)

However, wrestling musical concepts into intricate woven layers in the pursuit of creating songs that gather weight and additional substance with every successive listen is the band's true ambition. The Big Music. It’s true that beer is art, and that collaborative craftiness can be cathartic, but for The Rest, creating music that they love is the ultimate goal.

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AWMusic:
"This album is just great all around; calling it a masterpiece isn't a reach. Calling them the next Arcade Fire , doesn't do them justice either. The Rest, with Everyone All At Once have forged a sound of their own. With a stunningly great album, they could be well on their to way to becoming the next great Canadian band. 5/5*****"

The Musicologist:
“Fully realized, beautifully crafted and dynamic in scope; The Rest should be the next big band to come from The Great White North, and if they aren’t on critic’s “year-end/best-of ‘09? lists I’m formally lodging a criminal investigation to as why they aren’t. Grade: 9/10”

Captain Obvious:
"At its darkest, it's hypnotizing. At its lightest, endearing. Everywhere, it is engaging. Roaming far as mountains and near as nervous fear, the Rest takes you where they were, and you begin believe that's where you belong. The Rest stirs up their orchestra and asks the world to play, Everyone All At Once." -The Overcast “When at their most sonically unhinged, The Rest's music plays like something akin to the weirdest/most beautiful moments of a Michel Gondry film. “Everyone All At Once” is an album of great scope that accomplishes real beauty in both its moments of chaos and measured precision.”

Pretending To Be Japanese:
“Fast-forward to the present, and THIS is what we’ve been waiting for. Everyone All At Once is, for lack of a better word, a masterpiece. There are no weak songs on this album. That’s right, there is no filler. How often does that happen?”

Indie For Bunnies:
"If you miss "Everyone All At Once" you're crazy. This is Art! Without a shadow of a doubt. 5/5 *****"

Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster:
“The Rest is clearly chugging from some musically-enchanted Canuck fountain. The kind that promises reckless musical abandon, and the sort of emotionally gripping swells that will have movie music supervisors come knocking sooner than later. Enjoy the early warning -- because The Rest will be commanding the next Canadian invasion.”

Rock Sellout:
“Full of surprises, Everyone All At Once seeks to showcase the wide array of weapons The Rest have at their disposition. No one formulae is employed in this album as every track is different and beautifully executed!”

Eldur og Ís:
“I highly, highly recommend it. Throw in a little shoegaze, indie pop, indie rock, and just downright great songwriting and you've got what could be (and IMO should be) one of the best albums for this year. What took a year and a half to make grabs at you within the first few seconds. I can't pick just one or two stand-out tracks. All ten stand out.”

Pop! Stereo:
“Everyone All At Once is a super moody epic record that's soaring, melancholic at times, theatrical at others. It's warm one minute and chilly the next. It's truly a expansive record that Canada might have difficulty containing.”

Ear, Eye, Nose Candy:
“Their sound is quite exquisite, and really something to be marveled at.”

Herohill:
“Over the course of the ten songs, the Hamilton natives build and retract, surge and retreat with skilled hands in an effort to heighten the drama and excite the listener…the band’s melodies move along like ocean waves. The smallest ripples stir huge crashes and generate immense power, only to retreat and crawl back to where they began. When the band hits on all cylinders, the energy of anthems like Apples & Allergies, Everything All At Once, Walk on Water and The Lady Vanishes is truly inspiring and invigorating.”

Local Vertical:
“…stands alone in its grandeur and unique composition. Some of the best music I've heard thus far in 2009; highly recommended.”

Indie Music Database:
“Listening to Modern Time Travel actually made my heart ache - but in a good way. If I would ever see this song performed live, I could definitely say, this song would probably blow my senses away. Why oh why didn't I hear of this band a long time ago?”

Junk:
“Hamilton; home to electronica darlings like the Junior Boys and Caribou, and now the residence of one of the country's most promising bands, The Rest. The seven-piece's dreamy sound dials in the daintiest parts of shoegaze, sprinkles in the occasional rush of bombast ala Arcade Fire, and then lets frontman Adam Bentley and his falsetto skip across the perilous range of human emotions."

Zed Equals Zee:
“The arrangements are gorgeous, and the production is clear and atmospheric without sounding overproduced. The music cross-pollinates intense, bombastic sounds with melancholy and heart-tugging vocals.”

Alankomaat:
“A beautiful album. Imagine Arcade Fire, The National and Mercury Rev went into the studio together.”

Stereo Cupcake:
“An album composed of dreamy and melancholic pop songs, perfectly laced with just the right amount of falsetto, you float from song to song, unable to ignore the hypnotizing effect it has on you. Then, in an instant, it’s all over. Leaving you with that yearning feeling you get when you have been abruptly woken from a great dream that has seamlessly carried you through the night. Fortunately, once you’ve stepped out of the dream world, there is a repeat button.”

Tympanogram:
“It’s musical magnetic poetry! Everything you love about music is right in there.”

Recording Channel:
“The Rest, definitely, have, through a lot of intense work managed to come up with something interesting and uniquely theirs. This new album, Everyone All At Once, is the result of several years of work and brewing, and it seems as if the band has thrown itself wholeheartedly into the creative process resulting in something you owe yourself to listen to.”

Pirates of the Bargain Bin:
“You know how the next brilliant, unheralded Canadian band that puts out the next gobstopping album teeming with lilypads of frog-in-throat tunes will always be hailed as the next Arcade Fire? And did you know how if justice reigns in the world, The Rest just might be the next Arcade Fire?”

Mojophenia:
“Everyone All At Once comes across faultless, I agree 100% listening attention is required, but as a package untouched by fads and trends The Rest are producing music with some refreshing eccentricity.”

Indiehere:
“A Masterpiece”

Kata Rokkar:
“The Rest’s most recent offering is far more dramatic, melodic, and immense then their previous record, Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour. Adam Bentley’s voice is mellower, more distant, more thoughtful, and more accurate; the acoustics and one-off guitars and thick, saucy cymbals remain consistent, but even here is a lurking, lonely edge, one of functional desperation and oppressive shadow.”

Hypeful:
“….Walk on Water (Auspicious Beginnings) was enough of a reason to instantly search for a possible nearby tour date.”

Pigeons and Planes:
“Every pluck of a string or crack of a drum sounds completely deliberate, which makes for some really good songs that don't take months of thinking "what the fuck" before you finally get it. The lead singer keeps every moment of vocals exciting by bouncing up and down like a hyperactive kid on a trampoline.”

Lito Music:
“In short, this is an exceptional album, which initially may seem a little odd, but wins the listener over the course of the record, ending up becoming an absolutely essential disc. Undoubtedly, a work that is destined to become one of the best of the year.”

Laughing Evergreens:
“Heir to such mighty bands as Arcade Fire…Give The Rest a listen, they won't disappoint you.”

I Am The Crime:
“The result is a stunning record that no doubt will leave an emotional imprint on anyone who listens. From the more obvious melodic songs to the more subdued ones, Everyone All At Once is solid from start to finish.”

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Jason

Jason



Nov 12 2009 12:03 AM

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The Talkies

The Talkies



Nov 11 2009 11:47 PM

Thanks for the add! I like your stuff alot!
Richard Brooke

Richard Brooke



Nov 11 2009 11:15 PM

Hey, that sounds cool it's always great when you get into a studio and everything goes according to plan. Good to hear the show went well. I have a sister who lives in Ontario so have been to Toronto a few times. Never got the chance to check the music scene out though.

I'm doing fine at the moment, am in the process of moving house so things are a little bit hectic, but hey that's life I suppose.

Spk soon

Richard
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Nov 11 2009 8:12 PM

hi!
how are you guys?
luv & (((hugs)))
~misspurr=^..^=
Light

Light



Nov 11 2009 4:32 PM

I LOVE YOU

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Richard Brooke

Richard Brooke



Nov 11 2009 3:01 PM

Greetings!

Just dropped by to say hello. How's things?

Peace

Richard
Pick A Piper (ROOMS video posted!)

Pick A Piper (ROOMS video posted!)



Nov 8 2009 6:33 PM

thanks anna.
we had an amazing time!
you guys were really really good!!
Saitenflair

Saitenflair



Nov 6 2009 11:31 AM

Vielen Dank und beste Grüße von Saitenflair!
the Belles

the Belles



Nov 4 2009 10:15 PM

hey there, i posted a few new tunes hope ya dig.
cheers,
 Ryan
TART Productions

Ron Trembath



Nov 3 2009 10:15 PM

Hello, you lovable band of gypsies and fools!  I just wanted to let you know that I submitted a review of your video to Fensepost today.  I will be sure to let you know when it will be available for your viewing pleasure.  Take care!

- Ron Trembath
COLOSSAL YOUTH

COLOSSAL YOUTH



Nov 3 2009 10:22 AM

love this
On Another Note Records

Jude Huzicko



Nov 3 2009 5:38 AM

PS - I played around and made a ringtone of your performance of 'Heartbeat.' nice bow-work. =)
On Another Note Records

Jude Huzicko



Nov 2 2009 9:17 PM

there's a fine line between genius and insanity anyway. I think the ones who dance back and forth across it are rather interesting. Maybe next year we can team up. I'll dress as Alexandr Prokhorov (who I have never seen a picture without a glum and/or focused look on his face.) My prop will be a laser pointer.

I have not seen the video. but the concept is interesting. I'll have to check it out. was it done at home? This is the video that was done for Pet Ghost Project. They have one show left before they buckle down and start recording. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdKMDzJGpcI
On Another Note Records

Jude Huzicko



Nov 1 2009 7:04 PM

Only you could pull off a Russian physicist. And do I know you or what? I knew you'd be in a lab coat for something. Please tell me you have a picture of said costume, and that you are going to send it my way.

I think the only thing I do on myspace anymore is bs with you.
On Another Note Records

Jude Huzicko



Oct 31 2009 5:45 PM

You'll get to it. Eventually. You have to, right?

Do you have a costume? Or are you going to slip into your lab coat and fizz out those long locks, maybe go as a female version of Christopher Lloyd's character in Back to the Future?
Julie

Julie Anderson



Oct 30 2009 9:28 PM

What's up?!! Just spreading the love :)
Jim Bauer

Jim Bauer



Oct 30 2009 9:02 PM

Stay cool and have a haunting Halloween!
John

John



Oct 30 2009 4:47 PM

Thank you for being a friend!!!:) Keep on grooving!!:)
Jim

Jim



Oct 30 2009 4:45 PM

Frightful wishes this Halloween.
‡.♥.Stargazer with Clarity.♥.‡

‡.♥.Stargazer with Clarity.♥.‡



Oct 30 2009 2:04 PM

Happy Halloween Anna and All! Hope you have a wonderful holiday! ~xoxo~Rachelle'




Kathy

Kathy Jones



Oct 30 2009 6:04 AM

Halloween Pictures, Images and Photos
You Too Anna....
Thank You!!!
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Jude Huzicko



Oct 29 2009 8:40 PM

Healthy: still not able to fully shake the snot that's holed up in me good and tight. Might have to cave and visit the doc. Wealthy: getting there. =) Well: same. Are you going to manhandle affairs in North America, then?
On Another Note Records

Jude Huzicko



Oct 27 2009 9:16 PM

Still recuperating?
‡.♥.Stargazer with Clarity.♥.‡

‡.♥.Stargazer with Clarity.♥.‡



Oct 26 2009 3:18 AM

many kisses..... i get many comments on W.O.W - as it is on my profile music player, plus i cannot recommend you guys enough to all friends and friend's bands down here. I hope you are all well, much love. ~xoxo~Rachelle'
Anthony Renzulli Band

Anthony Renzulli Band



Oct 24 2009 11:23 PM

Sorry it took a while to reply...I want to extend my appreciation for your awesome comment. Thanks so much! Keep on Rockin on!
-AR

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