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The World Provider
12+ albums
indieCanadianpopdigital softcoreSurf
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The World Provider, superheroic alter ego of mild-mannered Montrealer Malcolm Fraser, has been providing the world with mind-sticking melodies, low-budget sonics and unabashed theatrical spectacle since 1999. Musically, the project has been described in myriad ways: “Hallmark-card heavy metal, support- group bubblegum” (Montreal Mirror); “rather good jangly pop” (National Post); “danceable disco-y sunshiny summertime bare-feet-in-rollerskates kind of music” (Wavelength); “inspirational whistling, crooning, shrieking and spaz dancing” (Exclaim); “Devo meets AC/DC” (Olga Goreas, The Besnard Lakes), “Tiny Tim meets the Ramones” (WP's dad); “the Crispin Glover of the Montreal music scene” (Pop Montreal program), "what TWP does is so free of outside judgment, so punk-without-punk, assertively goofy and yet unpresuming of any other standards of cool, rock and yet anti-rock, with super riffs and melodies and yet no polish whatsoever" (Carl Wilson). The WP got started from the same fertile Toronto musical community that spawned Feist, Peaches, Gonzales and Mocky. Back in the day, you might have caught the WP as a touring keyboardist for Feist or a backup singer/dancer/hypeman for Peaches. The WP self-released the debut The Elements of Style, produced by Peaches and Taylor Savvy, in 2000. The following year, the WP moved to Montreal and shortly began recording with Jace Lasek at the Breakglass Studio. The album Enabler with came out on Ta-Da Records in 2004. The WP toured the albu
