Canadian Music Week: Two Songs from: The New Wild

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The New Wild are Sean and Daniel Guezen of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They play heavy, bluesy garage rock, the kind of thing that will rattle your bones and pin your ears back if you’re standing in the front row.

This is Dallas, the first song from their self-titled EP, which causes me to sway along in my chair, grinning, every time I listen to it:

And this is Play It By Fear, from the same EP, which is . . . something of a cautionary tale, complete with guitars that burst out like the sharp end of a buzz-saw: