Cherry Chapstick

Cherry Chapstick The Line
Cherry Chapstick Precious Necklace (Remix)

Cherry Chapstick are a Montreal-based trio who got in touch earlier today with a couple of recent tracks. Members Nigel Ward, Evan Mullen, and Julian Flavin operate in the preternaturally talented world of unabashed pop music that's been percolating in Montreal for the past couple of years, amongst groups like Blue Hawaii, Pop Winds, the Silly Kissers, with some stylistic nods to groups like Lo-Fi FNK and The Avalanches. Kind of makes sense that second track here is a remix of the Silly Kissers song from the recent Arbutus Records 10" of the same name.

New Lo-Fi Fnk Song & Video

Lo-Fi-Fnk Marchin' In

What was the last thing the Swedish twosome Lo-Fi FNK did? Want U from the Kitsune Compilation? God, that's ages ago. Well, I'm glad they're back. They leaked this song yesterday. With both this and a new Caribou track (which is about divorce, maybe?) released recently, 2010 is shaping up to be the proper successor to 2006 that 2007 never was.

The Organ

The Organ Brother

I previously compared the Silly Kissers to Swedish duo Lo-Fi FNK, but in the absence of sequencing (and considering the Montreal group seems to be more prolific), I'll amend that to compare them to one of my favourite groups out of Vancouver in recent memory which is, sadly, no longer with us, The Organ. The initial lineup included financial journalist Sarah Efron, who now writes for The National Post. This song was on the L Word, it's from Grab That Gun, and supposedly Jenny and Katie now live in Toronto and run a resto-bar.

On the Silly Kissers front, sandwiched in between some serious mid-90s aesthetic mis-steps (that being the dominant mode of Quebecois culture, I have to say), here's a recent live performance from the group at Musique Plus.