DOOMSQUAD is an art project comprising Toronto-based siblings Allie, Jaclyn and Trevor
Blumas. Their debut album Kalaboogie (2014, Hand Drawn Dracula), was a fresh, head-
tilting take on electronic music, drawing on trance and psychedelia and leading to praise and
interest from around the world. Their dark, new age re-coding of the electronic music narrative
fuses the worldly and the cosmic. With the Pageantry Suite EP (2015, Hand Drawn Dracula /
Bella Union), DOOMSQUAD explored a brighter, shinier side of their sound while continuing
to sharpen their dark, insightful lyrics. Ever since Owen Pallett tapped them to headline a
showcase he curated in 2012, DOOMSQUAD have earned a reputation for thrilling and
creative performances. DOOMSQUAD is a diverse band who plays with all different artists including touring with Inuk Throat Singer Tanya Tagaq and coming off of a busy summer touring North America and Europe with hardcore band Fucked Up.
DOOMSQUAD band is now working with Polaris-studded producer Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck, Etiquette, Metz, Operators, Alvvays, Viet Cong) on their second full-length album, Total Time, due in spring 2016 on Hand Drawn Dracula / Bella Union.
WEBSITE: http://doomsquadmusic.com/ SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/eldoomsquad https://doomsquad.bandcamp.com/
PRESS
Best acts of CMJ festival 2015. "The first thing that comes to your mind when seeing them is the metaphysical- where did this brother/sister/sister trio, armed with an industrial electronic sound, pseudo-spiritual lyrical references, a yogic demeanor, and hairstyles from the gutter- come from? Why, Toronto, of course, the new HQ for all things weird and new and confident. " The Buswick Daily (US)
Clash Magazine (UK) & Drowned In Sound (UK) Best of The Great Escape Festival 2014: "DOOMSQUAD bring their engrossing weirdness to the city's Blind Tiger venue. Great name, that - and the band's music is instantly appealing too, coming on like F*ck Buttons soundtracking a halfway decent remix to The Wicker Man."
"Plotting concepts online before midwifing them in person, the group weave the aboriginal music of their North Canadian upbringing into the visionary sounds of Gang Gang Dance, Fever Ray and Gazelle Twin. Subtly entrancing and sulphurous, Kalaboogie stretches out like a volcanic winter, soaring over DOOMSQUAD’s native Canadian wilds and effortlessly outpacing the long shadow of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell." - Dazed & Confused, UK
"A defiantly "album" like album in an ipod era. DOOMSQUAD's full-length debut is a monument to bloodyminded strangeness: a free-flowing melange of creepy chants, druggy drones and lockstep beats that only truly betrays its greatness when consumed in a single, enchanting sitting. I don't know what goes on 'round siblings Allie, Jaclyn & Trevor Blumas's place, but it's probably not normal." - Ben Rayner, Toronto Star's Best Albums of 2014
‘An odyssey as twilit and ceremonious as Halloween in Twin Peaks … the group weave the aboriginal music of their North Canadian upbringing into the visionary sounds of Gang Gang Dance, Fever Ray and Gazelle Twin.’ DAZED Magazine
”The UK has a touch of jet-lag on being up-to-date with Canadian trip-merchants DOOMSQUAD, think The XX and Mezzanine-era Massive Attack forming a supergroup. It’s worth checking out.” ~ Spindle Magazine, UK
“DOOMSQUAD are among the best performers in Canadian indie” ~ Exclaim! Magazine
"This mesmerizing longer player is in the running for best late night album of 2014″ - Gimme Tinnitus, US
"Doomsquad is an example of a group that has the potential to defy cheesy stereotypes, particularly with their new single 'Ovoo'. Put it this way: the urban jungle would be nowhere without the witchy woods to daydream about." - Impose Magazine, US
"Doomsquad lays out a cacophonous blueprint of densely layered instrumentation and dreamlike cadences that draw you in” - Notes from Left of the Dial, US