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You’ll Never Get To Heaven

You’ll Never Get To Heaven

Divorce Records.

SCQ Rating: 79%

For a duo that incorporates most of its source material from 20^th century classical and 70s dub records, You’ll Never Get To Heaven doesn’t sound as distinct as one might imagine. But maybe “distinct” isn’t the idea here; Chuck Blazevic’s soundscapes tread a gamut of pristine, melodic snippets and gritty, textural exposition, suggesting a mysterious but no less tangible universe. With vocalist Alice Hansen’s soft coos as a guide, this debut unfurls with the one-two punch of “Drowning Out” and the break-beat indebted “You’ve Got the Sun” before slithering through an assortment of weird, sonic pastures.

Even when You’ll Never Get To Heaven acknowledges modern pop music by obeying a loose verse/chorus structure, their compositional foundation remains defiantly ambient. In that respect, this London Ontario duo consolidates its sound like My Bloody Valentine (moreso than other contemporary electronic-pop kids such as Purity Ring, Phantogram) as heard on “Come Over”, a pop song struggling to exist in the shadow of an overbearing ambient piece. Other tracks that carry prerogatives dualistic in nature include “Little Vera”, in which Hansen counteracts a pounding albeit twinkling blood-rush, and “Violet”, a procession of quiet surges that contemplate brimming over.

This You’ll Never Get To Heaven LP is not only a surprising turn for Divorce Records but a minor revelation for Canada’s independent scene. Be sure to catch this on vinyl before its limited run – only 300 copies – expires.