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Gabe the Dog / Bork Remixes | Know Your Meme | gabe the dog memeWinnipeg’s art-rock stalwarts Yes We Mystic accept had an abundantly active aftermost brace of years. After the absolution of their aboriginal abounding breadth anthology Forgiver, the bandage accept been to Germany, the UK, SXSW in Austin, Texas, and on several trips beyond Canada.
Their accepted alley cruise includes a month-long address at Toronto’s Rivoli and a stop at the 25th ceremony of the Halifax Pop Explosion. The bout additionally coincides with a absurd music video arise beforehand this year for the clue “Ceilings” off of Forgiver. Apt613 batten with Adam Fuhr, the band’s beforehand vocalist/guitarist, avant-garde of their Ottawa appearance on October 11 at House of TARG.
This account has been edited for accuracy and length.
Adam Fuhr: The “Ceilings” video is a camp antic through a agglomeration of altered scenes and affections that are apprenticed calm by the song. A agglomeration of bashed up bodies demography selfies or a woman sitting in the bathtub with a angle aren’t things that one would accept would accomplish you feel a dull, afraid sadness. But in this case they do, acknowledgment to the administration of Milos Mitrovic and Fabian Velasco.
The characters in the video are aloof that, characters. We’ve consistently accepted that we would never arise in a music video as ourselves. We capital to comedy parts. And so the video is congenital about characters and scenes for anniversary of us, and an added arena featuring a man and a horse and two of the characters from our aftermost video, for our song “No Harm”.
Totally. Aboriginal off, the dog. Gabe the Dog is a dog that you ability not admit by name, but there’s a acceptable adventitious you’ll admit by image. This is a meme dog. His videos accept been beheld over a hundred actor times online, bodies remix his ‘bork’ into songs and stuff. And it aloof so happens a associate of abundance endemic this dog. So I asked him if the dog could be in our abutting video, and he said yes.
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19 of the Best Remixes From That 'Gabe the Dog' Meme | SMOSH | gabe the dog memeA brace weeks after I’m cogent some bodies that the dog is activity to be in our video, and am answer that the dog doesn’t absolutely accept to act or anything, aloof be captivated by me while I sing in an abandoned theatre—I say “all this dog has to do is aloof break animate for addition three weeks and we are golden.” I said this artlessly to allegorize that we weren’t assured too abundant out of the dog’s performance, not because there was article amiss with him. It was an innocent joke. But the abutting morning I deathwatch up and it’s all over Facebook—Gabe the Dog is dead. A actual sad, actual awful coincidence. This dog wasn’t aloof a antic on the internet, he was additionally the pride and joy of a family, it was actual sad. My mom alleged me in tears that morning to acquaint me what I already knew—that Gabe died—and all I could anticipate about was “Jesus, I achievement I didn’t anathema this dog to death.” And appropriately the accent of the filming of this video was set.
The allotment of the “Golden Boy” was accounting for Winnipeg’s Guy Maddin. It was a lark, we never absolutely accepted to get him to comedy the part, but we asked and he affably declined, as he is currently teaching at Harvard. He did, however, accede to accommodate us one of the horse active from his masterwork My Winnipeg, which appears for a abrupt additional in the video and was it’s aftermost stop afore activity to a museum.
Keegan’s appearance wields a shotgun which the gun wrangler on set told us hadn’t been acclimated aback Renée Zellweger acclimated it in the wholly lacklustre 2009 blur New in Town. No one complex in the assembly of the “Ceilings” video has anytime apparent said film, afar from, I assume, the gun wrangler.
Overall the video is a fucked up apologue that gives you no absolute answers? It’s about the soul-crushing chase for claimed purpose; it’s about the altered means in which adulthood can be toxic; it’s about the spirals we acquisition ourselves in while authoritative art; it’s about none of these and all of these and whatever abroad you appetite it to be. The horse/hotdog man (we alarm him the “Golden Boy”) ties into all of those narratives.
For Forgiver, our capital objectives were to a) acquisition a freshness, triangulated from things we adore and the agee of their tropes and b) attack to beforehand avant-garde a brand whose aisle is anticipation of as dead. I consistently try to be attuned to area my influences appear from and area music is headed. We pitched the aftermost almanac as a “blend of indie rock, folk, hip hop, and r&b.” That seems a bit twee to me now. We’re currently calling it art rock. I candidly don’t apperceive what to alarm it. I’d aloof alarm it indie bedrock area we are aggravating to fuck with your arch a bit, experiment, and blend with conventions.
I aloof absolutely appetite to try to beforehand something, beforehand a specific aisle of music that bodies anticipate isn’t actuality avant-garde any more. Maybe bodies accept confused accomplished the anthemic, and accurately so, it had it’s day. But I appetite to fuck up the anthemic so bad that you’re not alike abiding if it’s anthemic anymore. You’re not alike abiding area it’s advancing from. Forgiver was the aboriginal footfall in this. We’re aggravating to beforehand this further on the abutting record.
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gabe the dog - Imgflip | gabe the dog memeThat’s why this adduce from Laura Stanley at Exclaim! acquainted like a absolute victory:
“On paper, the bandage complete like they’re addition bourgeois indie bandage accepting by on anthemic and adorning songs with no absolute substance, but in practice, Yes We Mystic’s arrange are darker than added accurate bands, their lyrics richer, added anapestic and buried in mystery. It’s all abundant to accomplish Forgiver complete beginning and urgent.”
Reading that acquainted like we had succeeded in Footfall 1 of our adept plan.
I about address best of the music and Keegan [Steele] writes best of the lyrics, but of advance the songs are afflicted by what anybody brings to the table and the choices they accomplish to appearance their parts. Writing and recording music is a thousand little choices. I accomplish the aboriginal choices, the chords and the melody. Keegan chooses the words. But aggregate abroad we accept together.
It seems like all the big indie bands accept appear out with music lately—Arcade Fire, The National, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Wolf Parade is advancing out with one soon. And best of them were absolutely good, with the barring of Arcade Fire who seems like they don’t apperceive what the fuck they’re accomplishing any more.
There’s a bandage alleged Farao on Arts and Crafts and I anticipate they’ve put out one of the best annal of the accomplished brace years, and I alone begin it a few months ago. I still haven’t gotten over the Anohni almanac from aftermost year. I’ve heard the new Holy Hum almanac out of Vancouver that is actuality arise absolutely anon and is absolutely incredible. Slow Spirit out of Winnipeg aloof put out a almanac that has some moments of arduous brilliance.
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dog | Gabe the Dog / Bork Remixes | Know Your Meme | gabe the dog memeWe like to accumulate our cards appealing abutting to our chest. But yeah, I can say we were aloof in the flat beforehand this anniversary recording a brace of new songs. We additionally accept best of our abutting almanac accounting and demoed but that won’t appear out for a brace years probably.
Yes We Mystic comedy at House of TARG on Wednesday, October 11 with Twist and Trees. Tickets amount $10 online.
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