With their self-titled debut, released in 2001, the Constantines were making cool Canadian indie rock when Canadian indie rock wasn’t cool. The mix is on the artier side of post-punk, with Bryan Webb and Steve Lambke trading vocal duties, sometimes loud and proud, other times meditatively mumbly. Pop melodies flit in and out, sometimes seeming to work toward a big chorus only to be torpedoed (as on “Hard Feelings,” the opener on last year’s Kensington Heights) by an almost classic-rock guitar line. And just when you think you have a bead on the band, they’ll drop a cover of “Islands in the Stream” on you.
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some night some time ago! at some party!
8 months ago