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Canadian singer/songwriter Howie Beck takes on pop music that amounts a melancholy undertow using the shiny buoyancy of beautifully crafted melodies, and the effect has produced him a global phenomenon almost regardless of himself. Toronto-based Beck produced his first recording in 1997; the home-recorded and self-released Pop and Crash was …

Produced in Vancouver as the Classics and later on the Collectors, Costs Henderson (guitar, vocals), Claire Lawrence (keyboards, sax), Glenn Miller (bass), Ross Turney (drums) and Howie Vickers (vocals) documented many singles from 1967 to 1970, but transformed their name to Chilliwack after Vickers and Miller still left the group. …