Excerpt from Mark Molnar and Eric Craven at Case Del Popolo on June 29, 2014

Scratching at a Blackout - Mark Molnar /Eric Craven -- Live at Casa del Popolo

Mark Molnar EQs, filters, and recombines the tracks from the 1/4 tonne overhaul recordings. Eric Craven / Nick Kuepfer

1/4 Tonne Overhaul -- Molnar Mix

Hoods Jinx is the first full-length album from Trace Magnette, a new project bringing together Montreal artist Eric Craven and longtime friend and collaborator (and former Montrealer) Damon Henry. The project distills the spirit of an intense three-day recording session, taking the intrepid listener on a barrier-breaking camel trek into scorching aural landscapes. Feedback loops and guitar scrapes are carved out around a solid architecture of rhythm. Nothing is abstract or slow burning: Hoods Jinx is immediate, vital, visceral and bloody-minded.

Trace Magnette is the sound of past and future Montreal. Post-industrial, chaotic yet disciplined, a sonic melting pot of the widest possible range of voices and influences. Its seven distinct tracks evoke back alley junkpiles, Mile-End breakfasts, snowbound Ladas, and railway overpasses, throbbing drums, surgical guitar riffs, cinematic cut-ups, oxygenating keyboards and dubbed out basslines are all in full effect. Part Vorticist manifesto, part soundtrack for FPV drone racing: Hoods Jinx represents the best of the old and new, liberation and mourning, the sound of the broken sidewalk avant-garde.

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