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Writing their name using a 1982 comedy starring Neil Young, the Ontario, Canada-based indie pop duo Human Highway produced in the first 2000s. Made up of Nick Thorburn (frontman for the eclectic indie pop group Islands) and Jim Guthrie (previously of Islands and Royal Town), Individual Highway released their debut …

Just one more promising Canadian indie rock-band, Montreal-via-British Columbia’s Unicorns began in the later ’90s, when high-school friends Nick (Neil) Diamond jewelry and Alden Ginger began crafting their roundabout, lo-fi, but distinctly catchy music. Cheap keyboards, noisy guitars, and true and mechanised drums surround the duo’s skewed and frequently religious …

Following the breakup of experimental lo-fi indie rock-band the Unicorns, members Nicholas Thorburn (aka Nick Diamonds; vocals, electric guitar, key pad) and Jamie Thompson (aka J’aime Tambeur; drums) shaped Islands, which present the two even more centered on brighter creation and neo-psychedelic indie pop. Since developing in early 2005, the …