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The Invisible Clock Factory
12+ albums
toronto
about
It’s been four years since The Invisible Clock Factory released their debut single, and it’s been time well spent. The Toronto-based duo of Adam Bunch and Matthew Ivanowich has been hard at work, meticulously piecing together their first full-length record, Somewhere Beyond the Blue-Cheese Moon. Using nothing more than a ramshackle collection of instruments and computer equipment, along with a talent for twisting sounds into strange, new shapes and a penchant for fairy tale lyrics and infectious pop hooks, the pair has crafted an ambitious debut: ten sprawling songs, each built from hundreds of individual tracks. Strongly influenced by the concept-driven music of The Flaming Lips and the Elephant Six Collective, the album is vaguely centered around the kind of elaborate premise you might expect from the pairing of a rock critic with a philosopher. (Bunch has written for PopMatters and Crawdaddy! and is the Editor-in-Chief of SoundProof Magazine, as well as a former member of Toronto rock band The Coast; Ivanowich is pursuing his PhD in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.) The record hints at the story of an orphaned girl who imagines her parents have escaped to a wonderful, far-away world. It’s an album of lush soundscapes and epic scope where references to quantum physics, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Vietcong mix with those of a child’s mind: sunflowers, lollipops and astronauts. The world of the Invisible Clock Factory is a world of irresistible melodies, screa
top songs
albums
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Fast Forward: The World Cup Goes Indie
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The Invisible Clock Factory Present Their Debut Single
Somewhere Beyond the Blue-Cheese Moon
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Fast Forward: An Indie Music Companion To World Cup 2010
Fast Forward: An Indie Music Companion To South Africa 2010
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Charlie Takes a Holiday
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Fast Forward
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Somewhere Beyond the Blue-Chee
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Penelope Rose / The Quantum Particles Rock And Roll Song
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Charlie take a holiday
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Last.fm
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Penelope Rose & The Quantum Particles Rock and Roll Song