Meet Think About Life

What the hell are they putting in the Montreal water system? Some muse has gotta be spunking up in it. The Canadians needed a music revival. Sure, they had Neil Young and Rush(chuckle), but in the past few years, it's just been one great band after another. It has to be a backlash against uptight Frenchies or something, but Montreal has found a new voice and is quickly fine-tuning it.

Montreal's Think About Life doesn't quite fit the off-centered pop of Wolf Parade & friends, and The Arcade Fire, but it still sounds like something we've never heard before. I don't know, maybe it is like something we've heard before; something like The Strokes and the dirty dancepunk of bands like the Liars and the cleaner brand, Franz Ferdinand. These influences are there, but they're filtered through the grimey grill of a used pick up truck. You can dance the disco fantastic, here, but Think About Life never fall into the trap of tilting dance music just enough to get the punks in their polyester leisure suits. T.A.L breaks down dance music to its most fundamental components -the sounds that get us up on the floor-mutilates them and throws them into a bathtub of scrapmetal, except this bath only runs rust water.

T.A.L.'s self-titled debut is a bit of okay. Their noise approaches catchy popness, but never becomes very memorable. Give them time, though, and I think we'll have another Montreal band that will reallign where American rock music can head towards.

Oh yeah. They're playing Knitting Factory on Thursday 7.27. Check 'em out.

Links
Think About Life's MySpace page
Think About Life's Official Site