Kevin Bronson on March 5th, 2014

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Dear Canada: Keep up the good work. Montreal two-piece Solids make the kind of vicious, delicious guitar squalor that recalls Torontonians Metz and F*cked Up, or Victoria’s Japandroids. The work of guitarist Xavier Germain-Poitras and Louis Guillemette, the duo’s debut “Blame Confusion” (out last month on Fat Possum) recalls the time when distortion and feedback were agitants in just-melodic-enough rock conflagrations. It’s loud and glorious, and it’s comforting to know somebody has scooped up all those great Dinosaur Jr. re-releases.

||| Stream: “Traces” and “Haze Away”

||| Live: Solids play Saturday night at the Church on York.

Photo by Marine Anais Haddidi