The Foggy Notions
Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, Canada | Established. Jan 01, 2009 | SELF
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Sunshine and heartbreak dominate the dreamy pop of Saskatoon quartet, The Foggy Notions,whose jangly and precocious tunes will have your half-cut self swaying around the venue with your eyes closed and hands in the air. The Foggy Notions merge the spaceman sensibilities of yesteryear with a texture and feel entirely their own. - Sled Island
Sunshine and heartbreak dominate the dreamy pop of Saskatoon quartet, The Foggy Notions,whose jangly and precocious tunes will have your half-cut self swaying around the venue with your eyes closed and hands in the air. The Foggy Notions merge the spaceman sensibilities of yesteryear with a texture and feel entirely their own. - Sled Island
The Foggy Notions, Beginning to See
This record produced by longtime local collaborators is a too-short lo-fi shuffle through seven beautiful, jangly, New Order-influenced powerpop tracks.
- The Star Phoenix
The Foggy Notions, Beginning to See
This record produced by longtime local collaborators is a too-short lo-fi shuffle through seven beautiful, jangly, New Order-influenced powerpop tracks.
- The Star Phoenix
FOGGY NOTIONS
Beginning to See
As light as it is dense, Beginning to See recalls the Creation Records era of music, where jangly guitar pop met a dreamscape of fuzz. This album is best when played loudly at a party, filling the air with beautiful noise. No, wait: this album is best played before bed, calming you as you drift off. Come to think of it, this album is best when played — period. - Planet S Magazine Best of Issue
FOGGY NOTIONS
Beginning to See
As light as it is dense, Beginning to See recalls the Creation Records era of music, where jangly guitar pop met a dreamscape of fuzz. This album is best when played loudly at a party, filling the air with beautiful noise. No, wait: this album is best played before bed, calming you as you drift off. Come to think of it, this album is best when played — period. - Planet S Magazine Best of Issue
Saskatoon’s The Foggy Notions are celebrating the recent release of their debut full-length album entitled Beginning to See.
However, despite some Saskatonians remembering their start as a two-piece, The ‘Notions’ newest material is by far a fully realized band effort. As singer Kalon Beaudry, along with band mates Janice Weber, Gerard Saretsky and Charles Lemire, explains, the band has since coalesced into something far grander than their original incarnations.
“Janice and I started the Foggy Notions to finish and perform songs that I had originally written in other bands that probably would not have fit,” says Beaudry. “Charles, Janice and I had all played in the Vicious Crystals together and that was just a fit that was bound to happen. Gerard and I had written songs together previously and he has such a knack for sweet little melodies that it just made sense to start using him as another guitar player.”
An impressive debut, Beginning to See is effortlessly breezy-and-wistful summer pop, easily a soundtrack for haphazard roadtrips and improvised campouts. But, far from a pushover, there is plenty of stomp and moxie to counter the group’s hazier moments. And balancing he-said she-said vocal lines, the Foggy Notions achieve a genuine romanticism that most bands – or couples for that matter – never find. - Ominocity
Saskatoon’s The Foggy Notions are celebrating the recent release of their debut full-length album entitled Beginning to See.
However, despite some Saskatonians remembering their start as a two-piece, The ‘Notions’ newest material is by far a fully realized band effort. As singer Kalon Beaudry, along with band mates Janice Weber, Gerard Saretsky and Charles Lemire, explains, the band has since coalesced into something far grander than their original incarnations.
“Janice and I started the Foggy Notions to finish and perform songs that I had originally written in other bands that probably would not have fit,” says Beaudry. “Charles, Janice and I had all played in the Vicious Crystals together and that was just a fit that was bound to happen. Gerard and I had written songs together previously and he has such a knack for sweet little melodies that it just made sense to start using him as another guitar player.”
An impressive debut, Beginning to See is effortlessly breezy-and-wistful summer pop, easily a soundtrack for haphazard roadtrips and improvised campouts. But, far from a pushover, there is plenty of stomp and moxie to counter the group’s hazier moments. And balancing he-said she-said vocal lines, the Foggy Notions achieve a genuine romanticism that most bands – or couples for that matter – never find. - Ominocity
Discography
Beginning To See - EP - self-released, July 2011
Sussed-self-released August 2013
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Bio
The Foggy Notions were formed in the fall of 2009. Dearly in love with early shoegaze of Creation Records and the chime of the 80's Flying Nun catalog, the band forged ahead with their own take on pretty pop music. The EP 'Beginning to See' was released in the summer of 2011, topping the charts on the local radio station CFCR 90.5 FM. The band is close to finishing their second full-length album, scheduled for July 2013, with tracks mixed by Woodie Taylor, and Joe Foster.
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