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The Oshawa Tree
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The first pressing of The Oshawa Tree is limited to 269 copies on translucent orange vinyl. Features a full color jacket and lyric insert and pressed by the fine folks at Smashed Plastic in Chicago.

Includes digital pre-order of The Oshawa Tree. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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This professionally replicated CD features a killer 6 panel wallet and was produced by the fine folks at Sooper Dooper.

Includes digital pre-order of The Oshawa Tree. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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Pre-order of The Oshawa Tree. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases October 4, 2024
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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Schemes For Decades, Breathing In Is Only Half the Function (2024 Remaster), The Oshawa Tree, Total Party Kill, Feels Like The Very First Two Times, This Christmas Eve, Got It, Triple Fast Action, and 71 more.
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Turn On The Night 04:13
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Ryan's Favorite Song 04:25
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Teenage Crime Wave 04:37
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The Worst Is Yet To Come view
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I Know Somebody view
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Priscilla Will Ya view
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about
Two guys walking into a bar would be typically be a setup for some kind of a wisecracking
cautionary tale. But in the case of Montreal’s The Low Sixes, it’s the impractical origin story that
led to the birth of the punk-injected power pop band.

The four-piece — assembled from a hefty lineup of the scene’s indie veterans – began
unassumingly enough as singers and guitarists Jonathan Cummins and Brendan Drouillard
returned home from an extensive European tour with their other project, heavy psych rock
band USA Out of Vietnam, and debriefed over some drinks at the local waterhole, Barfly.

The conversation quickly turned to developing a new project and, soon enough, the two were
recruiting friends, drummer/singer John Milchem (Starvin Hungry) and bassist/singer Jon
Asencio (from Cummins’ other band Doughboys), to form The Low Sixes. Asencio has since
departed the band with mutual friend Alan Hildebrandt (Priors) taking over bass duties though
Ascencio appears on the band’s debut, The Oshawa Tree, out October 4, 2024, on Forge Again Records.

“The band was mainly put together to escape the job doldrums, it wasn’t until we decided to
record four songs at Le Stuzzio with Ryan Battistuzzi that provoked a surprisingly positive
reaction from our friends that we decided we would turn into an actual band and do an entire
record,” says Cummins, adding that the band hopes to “erase the ‘cool’ factor” often associated
with DIY underground music. “Montreal has a very large experimental scene (Godspeed! You
Black Emperor, Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker etc.) and although we love that music, we are sort of
reacting against it as we believe everybody can appreciate a good pop song,” he adds. “We
want to be as inclusive as possible and be the band that can bring entertainment back to small
stages and DIY spaces again.” Case in point: The quartet recently played a birthday party in
Ottawa for friend and artist Dirty Donny who has created imagery for Metallica and Aerosmith.

The Oshawa Tree shares its name with the “less-than-perfect city” of Oshawa in Ontario,
Canada. “The title came to me while I was trapped in Joshua Tree National Park in California
with no money or passport to get back to Montreal,” Cummins recalls. Songs like the retro-
tinged lead-off single, “Ryan’s Favorite Song” (named for the album’s producer and with an
accompanying music video directed by Hildebrandt himself) have been thread together by a
common love of British Invasion harmonies, 1970s AM radio, and catchy, melodically-driven
punk and power pop from the likes of Redd Kross, Rocket From The Crypt, Big Star, XTC, T Rex
and Cheap Trick as well as touches of Guided By Voices, The Buzzcocks and The Beatles. Second
single, “Teenage Crime Wave” was even their unabashed attempt to namedrop The Kinks’ Ray
Davies; it’s a song “about getting too old to lug around your Peavey Backstage amp,” says
Cummins. The album also features guest vocalists Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek (The Besnard
Lakes), Chance Hutchison and Jackie Blenkarn (Private Lives) and keys from Patrick Watson.

Across the album’s nine tracks is a “universal pop theme of boy meets girl, girl dumps boy,”
says Cummins, “but if people are willing to bend an ear there are some sharp lyrical turns to be
found.” He adds, “Overall, there was a definite attempt to be up to snuff with the music that
influenced us while never taking itself too serious or becoming self-indulgent. The music really
comes from a fan’s perspective and is a love letter to power pop music.”