Long considered one of the best pop bands in Canada, the Heavy Blinkers have reached a new maturity with this stunningly orchestrated pop masterpiece. Two years in the making, “The Night And I Are Still So Young” consolidates the nocturnal orchestrations of the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev and grafts them onto material akin to 70′s era Beach Boys, Harry Nilsson or Randy Newman.

Genre: Orchestral Pop, 60′s Pop

Sounds Like: Belle & Sebastian, The Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Rufus Wainwright

“If it fails to connect to the modern world, it may be that the modern world doesn’t deserve it.” - Eye Magazine

Try Telling That To My Baby

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In The Morning

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Veranda Celeste

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Not content to replicate an approach already taken, the Heavy Blinkers decided instead to shake things up a bit on Better Weather. The perverse catchy-ness is ever-present, (the blinkers have written some of the most hummable pop in recent memory), but there is a definite and profound sense of melancholy on this record. The songs that make up the blinkers‘ new album, are twelve sleek and self-contained slices of pop genius. Moving comfortably from orch-pop to country, from r & b to gospel, this one has it all.

Genre: Orchestral Pop, 60′s Pop

Sounds Like: Belle & Sebastian, The Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Rufus Wainwright

“Better Weather is an album of sophisticated white soul, simply recorded but brimming with ingenious arrangements and complex harmonic blends.” -Uncut

Didn’t Even Have Time To Dream It

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I Used To Be A Design

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Malmo

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The Heavy Blinkers spent April 1999 in the recording studio recording the basic tracks for thier self-titled sophomore release. A dramatic sonic progression from the first effort with most of the songwriting shared by Jason MacIsaac and Andrew Watt, the album has garnered raves reviews.

Genre: Orchestral Pop, 60′s Pop

Sounds Like: Belle & Sebastian, The Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Rufus Wainwright

“The Heavy Blinkers is the best album of suite-like grandeur since the last Olivia Tremor Control record.” - Magnet

Chaplin’s Christmas

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Hey! Hey! You!

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Easy Living

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