PACKS - WOAH
PACKS - WOAH
WOAH is the new EP by PACKS, available digitally on Fire Talk and Royal Mountain. The Toronto-based band’s “scruffy and bright lo-fi indie rock that sounds just as joyously off-the-cuff” (Nylon) also garnered praise from the likes of NME, Stereogum, FADER, Line of Best Fit and more, with Bandcamp calling debut record ‘Take the Cake’ “the sound of classic indie rock, as delivered by a promising new voice.” Fresh off supporting Good Morning on their full US tour, ‘WOAH’ sees Madeline Link refine her voice in this solo project that features some of her most inventive songwriting to date. Strategically sparse, these eight new songs accommodate another side of Link’s prolific creativity, with nuanced acoustic guitar and lyrics that puncture in their stark realism.
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Toronto’s PACKS make music that’s like leafing through a diary entry of a time without visible movement, a subtle beauty that appears only when paying close attention. The band’s debut is a collection of songs that marry the loose but incisive jangle of early Pavement with the barbed sweetness of Sebadoh and the wide-eyed wonder of the first Shins LP. Written in two different settings, between the city limits of Toronto where Link was living in 2019, and the Ottawa suburbs where she was quarantined with her parents in the spring 2020, both remain complementary emblems of self-reflection and wry observation of the mundanity of daily life. "Take the Cake" is out on Fire Talk (Dehd, Deeper, Mamalarky) on May 21st digitally and July 9th 2021 on vinyl.
1st Pressing
Cake Splatter Vinyl - 300 Copies
Black Vinyl - 400 Copies
Additional Variants
Light Blue Indie Retail Exclusive - 300 Copies
Bright Red Rough Trade Exclusive - 100 Copies
PACKS makes the kind of garage pop rock that begs to be played for a basement of swaying bodies. The fact that they originally met at a house show is less surprising. Madeline Link leads Shane Hooper (drums), Noah O’Neil (bass), and Dexter Nash (lead guitar) down an introspective lo-fi rabbit hole, wandering through the beauty and strangeness of the everyday. “During the first lockdown I spent the entire month of April writing and recording songs,” Link says. “The anxiety of living with my parents again, grieving but not really knowing how, and the sheer ubiquity of time made it so that writing songs was the only way to not shut down entirely.”
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