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The Heavy Blinkers
12+ albums
chamber popindie popCanadianindiepop
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The Heavy Blinkers is a Canadian orchestrated-pop music group, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Formed in 1998, the original members included Andrew Watt, singer Ruth Minnikin, and singer/songwriter Jason MacIsaac. In 2000 the band released a self-titled EP. The style of the music has been compared to Brian Wilson's Smile project. The band has released several albums, including 2004's The Night and I Are Still So Young. Their songs are published through Nettwerk Publishing. In January 2008, Watt and Minnikin left the band, leaving MacIsaac as the only remaining original member. In 2013, the Heavy Blinkers released their 16-song album, Health. In 2014 the band was nominated for an East Coast Music Award for Pop Recording of the Year. On a warm spring day in 2006, over twenty musicians gathered in a studio in the north end of Halifax. Their presence was requested to sing in a choir for the upcoming Heavy Blinkers record. It was a project that had developed an aura of mystery . The band had been playing less and less over the previous months. In addition to that, some of the founding members had begun putting their focus on other projects. Their magnificent last offering The Night and I Are Still So Young earned them international acclaim and a devoted fanbase. Still, basing a touring orchestral pop act out of an isolated Canadian coastal city wasn’t without its challenges. As the choir assembled, they were given the lyrics to an upbeat and ambiguously themed track called “As Long
