FADER TV: Open Bar with Julie Doiron + Fred Squire
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It’s not really a coincidence that we’ve been jamming Eric’s Trip records lately, considering Trip member Julie Doiron has been enjoying a sort of musical renaissance, recording Lost Wisdom with Mount Eerie and Fred Squire and releasing I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day on Jagjaguwar in March. We had Doiron and Squire come to Heathers Bar one late afternoon to perform “Blue.” She played guitar with a tiny amp while Squire occasionally brushed a muted drum and cymbal. It was something between her old lo-fi power pop and her new heartbreakingly stoic electric folk, and a perfect accompaniment for that glass of red wine just chilling on the bar.
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posted on May 13, 2009 in MUSIC OPEN BAR SHOW tags Fred Squire, Julie Doiron, Open Bar, psych/folk, rock
Video/Freeload: Julie Doiron, “Heavy Snow” + “Spill Yer Lungs”
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On I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day Julie Doiron walks the thin line between softness and strength, laying lullaby vocals over heavy guitar crunch. Two of our favorites, “Heavy Snow” (vaguely lame video up above) and “Spill Yer Lungs,” (down below) are sweet but pointedly jagged. We may not be able to cosign that video, but we can cosign the music.
Download: Julie Doiron, “Spill Yer Lungs”
Video: Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Live
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Because we are cool and get stuff way before it comes out (booyah, common people) we have been listening incessantly to the upcoming Mount Eerie + Julie Doiron (and this other guy Fred Squire but we’re not sure who he is) album Lost Wisdom. There is a song called “What?” with the lyric “Newborn babies come to life on my face/ they say ta-da!” What? Exactly. There is also a really simple part where Julie Doiron says “I used to know you, now I don’t” and then the song ends and you are like “gosh, I guess music can still be brutal.” Or maybe it’s just that kind of corny/susceptible/touched mindspace we live in. But we digress. If perhaps you are also the kind of person that wishes occasionally Phil Elvrum would put out slightly fewer records and just make sure they are all as perfect as they could be, Lost Wisdom is real talk. Above is the first of seven videos comprising a complete Mount Eerie set with Doiron and Squire playing the record just after they finished recording this past April (and a few solo classic Microphones jams.) After the jump are the other six parts in a tidy, watchable column because we love you.
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posted on Jul 28, 2008 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Fred Squire, Julie Doiron, Microphones, Mount Eerie, psych/folk
