Allegories (website)(myspace)
Allegories are a two-piece experimental pop outfit from Hamilton, Ontario. Allegories spawned from a need to experiment with musical concepts, and a restlessness that made free time impossible or unwanted. Originally, formed as a side project to explore improvisational ideas, Allegories would soon became an obsession.

Auteur Releases:


Surreal Auteur (2008)

The Rest (website)(myspace)
For their second record Everyone All At Once The Rest decided to write and arrange the songs in isolation. They drove away from their select cities, A.D.D. distractions, relationships, and most importantly any escape from making music. They brought food, clothes, alcohol, and a van full of instruments. They woke to a lake, a forest, two cozy buildings, and a room full of instruments. They wrote and made noise until the sunset, beat on drums while howling at the moon (alcohol), and fell asleep aware and anxious to repeat the day before.

After multiple trips they said goodbye to scenic isolation and embraced urban isolation, knowing that they were working on the music that would capture the sound they had been chasing for five years. The Rest spurned the comfort and relaxation of the night to crawl into basements, and fill forgotten living rooms. After close to a year of this consuming rehearsal regime they returned to Catherine North Studios with Dan Achen to record theirplanned madness, attempting to corral the songs and each individual’s energy into a preserved piece of electronic data. Everyone All At Once accomplishes these goals, and expands on what The Rest had originally intended to achieve. Encapsulating the album title in sound, ideology, and ambition. Ready to escape isolation once and for all.

Auteur Releases:


Everyone All at Once (2009)	Apples & Allergies Single (2008)


Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour (2007)