Novillero's brand new full-length album A Little Tradition is now available from Mint Records.
Novillero will be heading to Germany in November for a 16 show tour. The band will be opening for headliners Tomte each night. This will be Novillero’s first tour of Europe (although in 2006 they played The Great Escape festival in Brighton). Everyone is extremely excited as you could well imagine…
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Disc of the week
NOVILLERO
A Little Tradition (Mint/Outside)
A new album from Winnipeg’s Novillero every now and then is a little tradition worth upholding, what with their time-tested turns of harmony, melody and dynamics, charting paths from Motown to the Mersey, Piccadilly to punk squats. The unmistakable songcraft of singer/keyboardist Rod Slaughter, once of minimalist neo-mod outfit Duotang, shines brightly on numbers like punchy “Lost Possibilities,” his masterful balancing of major and minor keys adding such emphasis to fierce yet literate lyrics. His counterpoint is singer/bassist Grant Johnson, whose own tunes are ambitious ersatz Britpop gems that sound much like what Oasis keep striving to achieve-and failing.8.5/10 Trial Track: “A Little Tradition” (Rupert Bottenberg)
Hey friends! Novillero would proudly like to welcome Rejean Ricard into the Novillero fold. Rej will be filling in on bass guitar as Grant Johnson has left the band to pursue a new path in his life. Some may recognize Rej from his band “The Telepathic Butterflies” (check them out here if you haven’t heard them before). Rej will be joining us on all the upcoming North American dates and on our Germany/Switzerland/Austria tour in November. Rej did a bang–up job at our CD release last Friday, and we’re eager to start pounding the pavement with our new line-up.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. -Queen Victoria
