Nov. 24, 2010 - Issue #788 : Wool On Wolves

Prevue

Sans AIDS

Fri, Nov 26, Wunderbar

To call Peter Sagar unflappable seems like a crushing understatement: the kid has the demeanour of someone who could be watching the entire Godzilla pantheon in a battle royale on Whyte Ave and barely be troubled enough to make sure his tea doesn't spill. Combined with a penchant for shaggy unkemptness and an ear for fuzzy pop hooks that would put Doug Martsch to shame—evidenced both as a member of Outdoor Miners and in Sans AIDS, the lo-fi two-piece in which he is the driving (or at least most present) force—it gives him the aura of a '90s college kid who got detoured on his way to buy the newest Pavement album and has just decided to roll with it.

"I listen to '90s rap all day every day. I used to listen to other stuff too, obviously," he shrugs. "I just really like the era. It's so ... lazy."

Lazy would seem to be the dominant theme of most of his output to date, although it's more of a lyrical mood than an actual listening experience. As evidenced as much by the quantity of his output—this year alone, he's had one seven-inch with each band as well as a split tape with Lake Country and now the solo tape Loaners—as much as its quality, he is not lackadaisical so much as capable of filtering the slacker ethos through jagged and deceptively minimal pop music. He's a fuzzed-out poet of the hanging-out-on-the-couch set.

"My roommate was actually making fun of me, because I think three of the songs [on Loaners] are about me hanging out at home. That's basically all I do, is hang out at home with my roommates," he explains nonchalantly. "I guess you write about what you know, and it's hard leaving Riverdale. There's a hill and the bus only comes every half an hour."

Fri, Nov 26 (8 pm)
With Sean Nicholas Savage,
Jom Comyn
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