SLED ISLAND 2019
Presented by BIG FUN
36?
Supple vocals and sharp-elbowed guitar blasts paint the ultimate awkward family portrait as the seven-membered 36? couch-wrestles with the torment of human existence. Projecting a flurry of sonic emotions onto a hyper-creative canvas, this cathartic art-rock basement party will decompress your cerebellum and put a few dozen pizzas on your likewise overloaded credit card.
Energy Slime
If you're looking for a hit of pure dopamine, Energy Slime is your best bet. The side-project of Vancouver oddball pop auteurs Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle, Energy Slime is unadulterated fun distilled into sub-two-minute pop gems
The Pinc Lincolns
The Pinc Lincolns live in that indefinable space between outsider music and pop. Their 2018 full-length On The Plain is esoteric, hooky, plain-spoken and charismatic: a quietly visionary art-folk LP led by sole-constant member Daniel Colussi. Their songs hiss and hum with a quiet kind of exasperation that feels truer than the overwrought mystique of contemporaries in this sonic lane
Silvering
Similar to guest curator Julien Baker, Shalom Toy is a master of her voice. She unwaveringly changes her tonal delivery from one line to the next to an enchanting and beautiful effect. Silvering's 2019 EP takes the behind-closed-doors sincerity of bedroom pop and injects it with the energy of playing in front of crowds who shout back every line.