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Heroes & Villains
12+ albums
indie rockmontrealpost-punkcanada2010s
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Montreal's Heroes & Villains have two albums under their belts, and they’re the best damn kept secret of everyone's favourite Northern drinking town. Tunes with a sound based around the songwriting capabilities of guitarist/vocalist Charif-Pierre Megarbane, Jeremy Proville's true bass lines, and Dominique Salameh's rapid fire busting beats drive the 80's Manchester meets jangle rock medley down the maturing Montreal musical highway. In early 2004, the band tuned their instruments and recorded a modestly financed self-titled demo, which eventually put the band on the local map by being saluted, among others, on the main page of the New Music Canada website, now CBC Radio 3. The 2005 EP All The Giants Are Buried At Sea is a textbook example of a classic debut, complete with accessible yet evocative melodies like Ruby Keeler and the jumpstarter Nothing's More Than Anything. The EP made its way to Canadian College radios with its songs reaching, in many cases, top 5 charts. Two songs, Firstname.Lastname and “Loveline” even managed to appear in the New Zealand charts. November 2006 saw the band release their first LP, Air Sea Rescue. Recorded, like the EP, at the famous Hotel2Tango by recording wizard Howard Bilerman, of Arcade Fire/The Dears/Godspeed! You Black Emperor fame, the Heroes sought to define their true sound, which they achieved quite admirably. You'll want to check out the anthemic There's No One, eulogy to postmodernism Air Sea Rescue, and the haunting guitar cho
