The Fat Angel Sings

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Montreal’s strange indie-pop trio The Unicorns abruptly split in 2005, two years after releasing the shambolic but strangely brilliant ‘Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?’, their first and only album. The band reformed briefly last year for a short tour, including support slots for Arcade Fire, but this five-track EP sees frontman Alden Penner  who has sporadically released solo work since the breakup  shift his focus back to solo matters. Inspired by Dutch nonprofit organisation Mars One, which aims to see humans establish a colony on the red planet by 2027, ‘Canada In Space’ is wonderfully idiosyncratic. In particular, the sprawling and jarring ‘Meditate’  which features Juno actor and musician Michael Cera on backing vocals  may be the best thing Alden Penner’s done outside of The Unicorns.

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