Remixes

Changes

Isolated

After A While

Samuel

Natural

36? is Taylor Cochrane, Ryan Kusz, Eric Svilpis and Scott White

Additional musicians:
Luke Bowman - harp on track 12
Gordon Grayson - jaw harp on track 14 and harmonica on track 17
Kimberley Ilott - vocals on tracks 8, 10 and 13
Alex Meyer - didgeridoo on track 9
Connor Miles - vocals on tracks 14 and 15

Crowd Vocal Singers:
Louis Baydala, Luke Bowman, Brogan Gordon-Cooper, Andrea Hunter, Kimberley Ilott, Andrea Llewelyn, Keegen McKibbon, Mike Meuledyk, Alex Meyer

Cover Art Artists:
Alex Baum, Scotty Bernier, Kathryn Bolton, Luke Boman, Mikaela Cochrane, Taylor Cochrane, Kellie Cornforth, Shifrah Gadamsetti, Brogan Gordon-Cooper, Vickie Grayson, Cameron Gunn, Shalice Hansen, Andrea Hunter, Mark Ikeda, Kimberley Ilott, Nikola Johnson, Mike Kasper, Keegan Mckibbon, Sean McMullen, Mike Meulendyk, Connor Miles, Travis Miller, Amanda Prokop, Valerie Siu, Erica Tufford, Chantal Wall, Scott White, Jocelyn Yet

All tracks recorded and produced by 36?
Mixed by Taylor Cochrane at 2824 studios
Mastered by Grant Howarth at Outhouse Studios
All songs written by Taylor Cochrane
Photography by Mike Kasper
Graphic Design by Sean McMullen
This album was record over the course of 2013

Soul Searching

Where Do We Go from Here?

The Man At The Door

SPOTIFY 

Finding Love // Having Autism

FEERS

                              

wasted

Tiger Tail 

Paperback 

Follow Us Here 

Paperback


Release Date May 18th 2015

All songs written and recorded by 36?
100% Canadian Content

Tiger Tail

Robbing The Vegan Ice Cream Truck

First remix off the upcoming 36? remix EP - Paperback(wards)


36? - Paperback (MOSASAUR remix)

Split 

Old Bones

Watch OLD BONE

What does it mean to be an honest artist? This is the question that I continue to ask myself as I attempt to construct a more current description of the life I have led and how it has shaped my band 36?. There are many things of which I believe hang in the balance when considering one’s artistic integrity, but the one thing that I have come to need in art to consider it authentic is to feel everything unapologetically. Regardless of emotional weight, depth of thought, or scope of relatability, the content has to feel like it comes from a real place. This is why whenever I am asked the question, “what kind of music do you make?” I feel inclined to say, “it depends on my mood.” 36? emerged at a very difficult and incomprehensible time in my life. I existed in a constant state of medically induced psychosis. I wrote and recorded songs on a daily basis, a mechanical imagination running wild in a zombie suit. Appearing as a hazy shell of a human being to the outside world, a blank dead eyed slate sitting at the back of the classroom, but on the inside I was in a constant state of creation.

I suffered.

I felt it all, but I wasn’t in a state where I was confident enough to put my feelings to art. So much of the music I made back then was a translucent mask of angst. Pretending I was alright, I had to feel in control of something. Building myself up in my art in the hopes to paint a picture of my ideal self. So far removed from the withering, fearful, sad boy that I was. I have written a lot of music for 36? since then. The band has grown both emotionally and physically. What started as the basement musings of an insecure sixteen-year-old boy has become a touring project that I get to share with my best friends. Together we have toured over land and sea, recorded award-winning records in our many suburban basements, and received all of the praise the sad boy from my past ever could have asked for. But, through all of this, one thing that I felt I have never gotten over was the idea that my own personal thoughts and feelings were not worthy of my art. I have always written from the perspective of a caricature, until now. Milk Mountain, named after our immensely talented and incredibly attractive bass player Mike Malkin, is the first record I have ever put out in which I feel like every song speaks to something I have experienced directly. It’s the most real and exciting project I have ever been a part of. In many ways, I’m still that sad boy from the past. I feel like ‘crazy’ is not something I will ever grow out of, but rather grow into with clearer intent. I have grown to realize that my feelings are all that I have, and when I am real about them, people listen.

 “So what kind of music does 36? make?”
36? makes pop-punk-neo-jazz-fusion soul music from heaven and hell. 36? makes ballroom dancing music for the disco. 36? makes stupid idiotic music for dogs and fish. 36? makes music that makes you cry and then stabs you in the back. 36? makes music that gives you the finger after buying you ice cream. 36? makes music that comes from the heart even when the heart feels nothing. 36? makes whatever feels right at the time. 
Are you intrigued? Then light some scented candles, throw on Milk Mountain, lay down on the floor with some Doritos and paint your best friends face. Or, do something else completely weird and ridiculous. Or, do nothing. I have come to realize that the happiest that I have ever been is when I say fuck the rules and do whatever I want. That's what I think everyone should do, and that's what 36? is all about.

EZFM

I think that my dog knows I'm high

36? is an award-winning internationally touring art-rock band based out of Calgary, AB. Originally formed by Taylor Cochrane in two-thousand-and-late, 36?  became the given name for Cochranes frantic basement musings. Moving through their formative years a medically-supercharged-autistic-child, Taylor had trouble making friends, and turned to art as their pathway to self-exploration and at 17-years-old put together their first release. The album: Love, Hate, Bondage! By 36?. It was emotionally jarring, stimulant fueled and all in all difficult to listen to record that Taylor burned, pressed and printed by hand. They would then go to school with a backpack filled with CDs and hand them out to unsuspecting kids in class. 

Now, over a decade later, 36? has grown in size, they regularly play shows all over North America, they have heard their songs on the radio, they have had several award-winning and/or critically acclaimed releases. Once, when 36? was first gaining notoriety, they even got to open for one of young Taylor Cochranes biggest influences as a budding artist, The Ataris.

Much time has passed since 36? first took it’s baby steps but for Taylor Cochrane one thing remains the same, an unrelenting pull towards musical exploration and self-discovery. The sociologically nightmare of growing up as an autistic youth in the ADHD-panic era couldn’t hold them back from finding themselves in their art. More recently, on tour between music festivals 36? was in a triple roll-over in their live-in tour van on the icy highways in Colorado, and still 3 months later Cochrane found themselves back there, driving on the same highways that had once nearly taken their lives, on another adventure, with art leading the way.

36?

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