Artist: Women
Album: Women
Label: Flemish Eye Records

Reviewed By: Xanthe Couture (Edmonton Correspondent - Canada)

If you have a blurry line between what constitutes noise and what constitutes music, then you will like this strange album from the boys in a band called Women. 

Recorded using ghetto blasters, old tape machines in a basement as well as in an outdoor culvert and a crawlspace, Women create music, which is at times more like noise.

Although you could argue that music can be created through random banging and clanging, there is the flipside where anyone could go in their basement and play around with passé stereo equipment and make an album.

The tracks ‘Lawncare' and ‘Sag Harbor Bridge' are the most radio friendly and could find their way onto independent funky radio stations. 

The last two tracks, ‘January 8^th' and ‘Flashlights,' really push the limits and test your ability to follow along; twanging guitars and disjointed percussion make you question what the point of it all is. Sadly, a child banging pots and pans becomes an apt comparison. 

The genre of the music is described as Avant Pop/ Indie Rock, maybe you have to really be on the in with music to understand Avant Pop, but it would have to be watered down a lot more to appeal to more then a select few, although maybe that is the goal.

Women played at live music hub Velvet Underground in Edmonton recently and their performance was highly regarded by a local reviewer for See Magazine, who spoke of the increasing critical regard for the Calgary band.  

So despite the impression that this album is mostly nonsensical, there is a reasonably sized following for this sound. It is possible that Women will find their niche on the soundtracks of vintage clothing stores, free trade coffee shops and on the IPods of your hip friends who want to stay two steps ahead of the current music trends.

Women could develop into a band with a more mature sound that could possibly reach across the hipster barrier, if they so chose to. But for the moment, for the layman's musical tastes, this band has been spending too much time in the basement. 

Track Listing:
1.Cameras
2. Lawncare
3. Woodbine
4. Black Rice
5. Sag Harbor Bridge
6. Group Transport Hall
7. Shaking Hand
8. Upstairs
9. January 8^th
10. Flashlights