newmusicmonday #58::Kestrels

image:: Kestrels, MySpaceMusic by Riley Pearson

Genre	indie rock
Members	Chad Peck, guitar/vocals Paul Brown Kirstan Moore, bass
City	Halifax, NS Canada
Recent Release	'Primary Colours' album {2009} and "The Light" 7" single {2010} on Noyse [streamed samples + store] "What Happens" {2010} streamed on The Coast.ca {29 Aug 10}

website	MySpace	Facebook	CBCr3	Twitter		last.fm

This week's newmusicmonday features a Halifax indie rock band, Kestrels, which got a shout-out on AUX this weekend. Kestrels have melody and harmony, but didn't forget the guitars. I was hoping to put some selected tracks on a player, but nothing's on Groovehark. There's plenty of music to sample though on CBCr3 and MySpace, as well as on their website {links above}. Here's a live version of "Our Velocity" from Gus' Pub in Halifax on 5 March.





There's an energy to their sound and I'm looking forward to checking them out live, although tour dates are forthcoming, according to a MySpace blog entry last month. I saw they had a date with DD/MM/YYYY {CBCr3} earlier this year, a band I was considering for a new musicmonday but their sound on a cursory listen made me feel like I was having an epileptic fit. I'll try to give them another listen in the future.


Kestrels might have a feel-good pop sound, particularly on tracks like "Seaside", but some tracks like "Primary Colours", ''The Light", and "I Am the Cancer" bring in the guitars and fuzzfactor reminiscent of Jesus and Mary Chain and are my favourites. Tracks like "On Our Time" seamlessly bridge that middle ground.


Twitterversion:: [blog] #newmusicmonday feat. Kestrels {@kestrelshfx}. Indie rock w/pop hooks fr. HFX. Looking fwd to seeing them live. @Prof_K