Holy Fuck

Eschewing convention, this Torontonian electro outfit — with a name only a motherfucker could love — doesn’t use computers to create its hallucinatory soundscape. Compelled by an aesthetic defined as “find something in the trash and plug it in,” founding members Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh create their effects using tape machines, cheap keyboards, those annoying toy laser guns and even a 35mm film sequencer (extra points to the bright girl or boy who can identify this device in the music). The act’s second album, LP, received a Juno Award nomination (Canada’s Grammy) for Alternative Album of the Year, as well as a Plug Independent Music Award nomination for Avant Album of the Year. Backed by a solid rhythm section, Borcherdt and Walsh sweep listeners into an electro-industrial, psychedelic dream world straight out of Fritz Lang’s id. See Holy Fuck live and the name will make perfect sense.