Review: Spill Mag

Review: Spill Mag

Barrie, Ontario's Fox Jaws, formerly known as Doris [Day], is fresh out of the gate with this fantastic debut. Goodbye Doris is full of some very well crafted ambient pop rock. These guys pull off some excellent boy/girl vocal harmonies and duets to a massive effect. Vocals are sweet, soaring, and only sometimes raunchy and overdriven, yet always impassioned. Goodbye Doris full of richly textured and orchestrated songs, and along with the lyrics, it is ever evocative of the greater Canadian experience. Strong and varied percussion holds most of the album together, leaving the guitars to create large echoing sounds that sweep across the speakers and build upon the rhythm. Though young, this band has fast become masterful of their craft, creating massive soundscapes ranging from the roots-ier 'Karmonica' to the vaguely psychedelic 'Forging a Truce'. Comparisons to Broken Social Scene can certainly be made – the size of this band's soundscape is at times that large, and their tasteful use of multiple instrumentation could soon put them at the forefront of Canadian music.

-Jesse Kline