The tenuous indie Brock-rock of America's Pac Northwest meets a more dreamy Canadian sound in this neighborly northern band. Part rural folk incantation, part Fiery Furnaces-like dirge, the Shapes and Sizes sound cloaks itself in mystery and does forbidden dances with pitch.
From Canada's misty Pacific Southwest emerges Shapes and Sizes, fully formed and self-defined, yet redolent with future promise. Shapes and Sizes' melodic pop inhabits a world of beauty, noise, whispers, and elusive, contradictory moods, where the dynamic of a steam piston gives way to elegiac understatement, often within one song. With three of its four members writing for the band, their repertoire is one of constant surprise, often going out on a limb, but never falling off.