The Super Friendz

It does kinda sound like it could be, like, a Sloan B-side, right? That was the song Gift Shop from the Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island band Gizmo.

The band is fronted by Julien Kitson, who grew up listening to '90s slacker rock and Halifax rock bands like Thrush Hermit, Sloan, the Superfriends, fronted by Q senior producer Matt Murphy.

Not to mention Julian's dad fronted the Celtic rock band Rawlins Cross.

So all of that filters into the music Julian writes for his own band, Gizmo.

It's funny because Halifax was, H- Halifax g- gets talked about as, as once being called the, the "new Seattle" because-

Mm-hmm

... you know, it was right after, um, it was, it was right after Nirvana, so when Sloan and Superfriends and, and Buck 65 and, and Eric's Trip were being signed, these were all...

For people who don't know, these were all these really, really important bands out of, out of the East Coast.

And this goes to the, how many people around me were always playing music too.

Like Matt Murphy from the Super Friends was in, played in No Damn Fears sometimes.

Andrew Scott, who's from Sloan, he also played guitar in that band.

I don't think I appreciated how immersed we were and how lucky we were and how free we were to, to, I guess we were young is what I also think about.