You either dig Toronto’s Hidden Cameras or you do not dig them. You either find them hopelessly mannered and naïve or you do not. You either find their music refreshing in a DIY/low-art-gay-churchy kinda way or you find it predictable in a samey-same kinda way.
I like them. A lot. They’re fun, they’re fresh, they have an expansive theatricality and they inevitably find their way onto my iPod within days of release of new material. Like their latest song, “In the Na,” released a couple of weeks ago as a tease for the upcoming Origin:Orphan album release next month.
I won’t deny I have a thing for head Camera Joel Gibb and that was cemented when I met him when he was wearing naught but a wrestling singlet and I was in boxers, dress socks and black wingtips at a friend’s party. He wouldn’t remember that, I’m sure. But, anyway, that’s none of your beeswax.
Hidden Cameras’ live shows are ridiculously fun. They don’t make it to Vancouver nearly as often as they should, though. Like, the last time was 2006? And on my very street? Dear Joel: change that, okay?
Video: Hidden Cameras “In the Na”
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Did you happen to see “In the Boneyard”, the collaboration between Toronto Dance Theatre and Hidden Cameras? It was fabulous.
Ha ha – it reminds me of the South Park episode with the aliens who have one word in their language: ‘marklar’, which can apparently mean anything and everything at once.
I think I liked them. But the intro to the song was a bit long. Once it got to the musicy bits, I rather enjoyed it.
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