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One review­er describes Holy Fuck as “strange­ly melod­ic and pulse pound­ing free-form fusion of the heavy chug and groove rock of Trans Am and the quirk­i­ness of Beck rolled into one mes­mer­iz­ing view­ing and lis­ten­ing expe­ri­ence.” Well, I don’t know if you can form any plau­si­ble impres­sion from that descrip­tion, but it’s fair­ly accu­rate. A more com­pre­hen­si­ble way of describ­ing this Toron­to band is to say that they try to dupli­cate, live, using phys­i­cal instru­men­ta­tion, with­out pre-tap­ing or splic­ing, the sounds that you would think could only be done by com­puter. I think they achieve this admirably, judg­ing from the record­ing I have of their epony­mous debut all­bum. Here, band mem­bers Bri­an Borcherdt, Gra­ham Walsh, Mike Bigelow, Loel Camp­bell, Kevin Lynn, Glenn Milchem, Rob­bie Kuster, Matt Schulz are joined by Lau­rence Cur­rie and Dave Newfeld (of Bro­ken Social Scene). Some­thing like this should be seen live. I haven’t had the chance to, yet, but a hint of it can be seen in the videos avail­able on their Myspace site.