Ideal Lovers: Just waiting to play photo: Caroline Desilets

"The Plants And Animals guys are great," says DeCamp, before Grass adds, "But Timber? Big assholes!"

The joke works because this is one musical community that thrives on the fact that everyone collaborates with each other in the studio, on stage and at the bar. On top of the aforementioned cast, the band, who like P&A are a little more rock than country, cite musicians like Li'l Andy & KC, Angela Desveaux, Dara Weiss, the Ships at Night roster, plus Kees Dekker and Gilles Castilloux of the Treatment Room as being part of this granola-flecked clusterfuck.

Ideal Lovers were originally started by DeCamp - a Yankee who came here eight years ago for school and never left - and Payant, who surrounded themselves with a likeminded cast of multi-instrumentalists who've come to play a more central role in the group. I mention that it seems like this specific musical neighbourhood, made up of slightly unhip musicians who concentrate more on their craft than their MySpace pages, may be the one scene in Montreal that should, but may not, blow up. After some good-natured, but half-hearted, protestations to the contrary, Payant adds:

"There's no big master plan. We're not going to wait around for a record deal that may never come - we just want to play."

Ideal Lovers
At Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent), April 20

 
 

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Amazing Alt-Country!     Wow - yet another alt-country (super)group. In Montreal's indie-scene, the alt-country community is so incredibly close-knit and mutually supportive that to know one group is to be exposed to just 'bout the whole breadth and depth of indie-country's roots here. If anything is going to break big-time, you'd have to think it'd be our burgeoning alt-country scene 'cause in terms of sheer unbridled talent, creative cross-pollination, and unrivalled picking and playing - Montreal bands/troubadours have few peers!
David St Pierre		April 23rd, 2007

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