I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Canada is currently producing some of the finest independent music. Slow down, Molasses is definitely no exception. It’s actually hard to pigeonhole Slow down, Molasses into one specific musical genre. Not that I would wish to indulge in this convenient journalistic trick, but as much as we’re trying not to simplify popular music with words, we invariably do...Anyway, how would you describe a band that plays instruments as disparate as a horn, a type-writer (I know, not technically an instrument but used skillfully in studio and live on the track ‘Bodies’), a banjo, a cello, a glockenspiel, and distorted guitars?

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