Author Archives: Dæv Tremblay

The Multidimensionality of Music

by Dæv Tremblay

Too often music blogs, including ourselves, have rejected, or ignored, the fact that music is not a one-faced art.

From now on, Can This Even be Called Music? will treat albums, and music, as they should be : a multidimensional art.

With our future reviews, we will review music, obviously that’s what interests us the most, but we will also rate the artwork of an album, and the lyrics to it.

Visual artists can spend countless hours on an album’s art, and yet it mostly serves the dull purpose of telling one album from another at first glance. Similarly, a … Read more

Stagnant Waters – Stagnant Waters

by Dæv Tremblay

Listen to “Of Salt And Water” right here.

Not much chaotic as it is eclectic, Stagnant Waters will storm through your speakers like untamed and dangerous animals. You might only care for the tigers and rhinos, but if you listen closer you’ll be able to see the peacocks and butterflies of this wonderfully diverse zoo.

Indeed, between harsh, heavy parts, there are some electronic passages and truly undecipherable moments.

When does a song end? Is it when the player has stopped playing it? Or is it when you’ve understood all that was going on in the song? If you … Read more

Twelve Discs of Christmas

by Dæv Tremblay

Hello everyone. This is our year’s end top list, and at the same time, since we did not have time to review all those excellent albums, we will do a short review of them here. Those are all 100% CTEBCM-approved albums, and you shall buy them as a gift. For yourself.

Oh, and by the way, they are put in alphabetical order, so they are all kinda #1.

Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II : Future Sequence

How could we overlook this brilliant masterpiece that is Future Sequence. Everyone has talked about it, and unless you’ve been … Read more

LVM Trio

by Dæv Tremblay

Stream this over at bandcamp while you read here!!

If you didn’t already know Luke Jaeger (Sleep Terror), Vishal J Singh (Amogh Symphony, Robots Pulling Lever, and a ton of other projects), and Mark Hawkins (Robots Pulling Levers, and another ton of other projects), this is the time to.

While these guys have gathered recognition mostly in the metal scene for their technical abilities and proficiency, here they are jamming some funky tunes, my friends!

With varying inspirations and styles such as funk, folk, blues, 80’s music, space-y music, flamenco and hindi music, and using a lot of keys and … Read more