Crafting a lo-fi, punky yet melodic sound evoking Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr., and Sonic Youth, Montreal's Solids is the project of guitarist Xavier Germain-Poitras and drummer Louis Guillemette, both of whom were in Expectorated Sequence. They released their debut EP, Generic Dogs, in 2010. Following the 2011 7" Fog Friends and 2013's split single with Toronto's Animal Faces, Solids began work on their first album with producer Adrian Popovich, formerly of the band Tricky Woo. The results were 2014's Blame Confusion, which featured some of the band's most densely packed rock yet. ~ Heather Phares