The Most Serene Republic that is. These guys are good. They are the first group to be signed on Toronto’s Art’s & Crafts label without somehow being associated with Broken Social Scene. Quite a feat. But it seems that little is beyond the grasp of these seven talented individuals. I’m not sure which musical quality I find most endearing: The bodily percussion, the poppy sensibilities, the vibrato piano solos, the layered harmonies, or the strained shouts of “she took a sad song, made it sadder!” Mmm…mmm…good, as momma Crouse would say. A reputably energetic and entertaining stage presence doesn’t hurt either. The Most Serene Republic is actually playing a show in Omaha as I type this. They are literally about to walk onto the main stage of The Slowdown and please an enthusiastic crowd of Omaha’s Canadian indie junkies. This blogger apologizes to his readers for not informing them of this performance earlier, and it is only with a great deal of regret that he missed the show himself. I guess the best we can do is curl up with a copy of their Underwater Cinematographer album and dream of what could have been.

Click the pic for their Myspace. Dear me, sir Yost, I had forgotten about multimedia!

-Tom Crouse