Library Voices (libraryvoices.ca) are a seven-piece indie-pop outfit from Regina, Saskatchewan. Generation Handclap is off of their upcoming album "Summer of Lust" (which was also released as a 7" back in May) on Nevado Records (home to Bahamas and Yukon Blonde) and marks their third release in just over two years (nevadorecords.com).

Library Voices may very well be the dark knight of indie rock. At every turn they’ve been met with curses of mythical proportions; they have had their trailer robbed on tour and their instruments and studio destroyed in an unimaginable flood. That said, they have refused to let anything bring them down.

This past winter, while thousands of Saskatchewan residents packed up and headed south to escape the soul crushing conditions of the cruel prairie winter, Library Voices rented an old town hall in the frozen rural village of Kronau (population: 209) and hunkered down to write their sophomore full length release. As if that weren’t enough, they then packed up the van and drove headlong into the heart of winter on a cross-country road trip to Montreal to commit the songs to tape. The result is a bright -eyed, feel good rave-up that sounds like it’s been soaked in sunshine and gin sodas.

Fueled by criminal amounts of espresso and a hundred odd bottles of gas station wine, the album was recorded in just ten days with engineer/producer Jace Lasek (Wolf Parade, Besnard Lakes, Suuns) at Breakglass Studios in Montreal. On Summer Of Lust the band carries on their traditional of ever evolving instrumentation, this time around incorporating an Onmichord, a Prophet 08, and samples of NASA space recordings to their guitar/synth driven sound.

The band is comprised of Carl Johnson (guitar, vocals), Amanda Scandrett (keyboard, vocals), Paul Gutheil (sax, vocals), Michael Thievin (drums), Brennan Ross (guitar, vocals), Eoin Hickey-Cameron (bass), and Michael Dawson (keyboard, vocals), and has included other friends and musicians along the way.

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