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Project Nowhere Review: Motherhood, Hobby, October 4, The Baby G

Posted on
5 Oct 2024
by
Paul

Having missed out on the first night of Project Nowhere due to a prior engagement with some ’80s metal bands, I wanted to make up for lost time and make the most of the club hopping aspect of the festival by heading to a second location after Frankie and the Witch Fingers’ set at Nineteen Seventy Eight on Friday night. And so, after a short streetcar ride, I found myself at The Baby G just as New Brunswick’s Motherhood were getting things started.

The three-piece has a pretty eclectic sound and didn’t really give you any time to get bored with what they were doing before changing gears again. From one song to the next, their sound would shift, incorporating everything from weirdo Everly Brothers-meets-Sonic Youth vibes to sludgy heaviness to straight up hardcore to surf rock-inspired sounds, yet all of it blended together quite nicely. And the crowd was eating it up too. Fun times. 

Next up was Hobby, a local five-piece band who bill themselves on their Bandcamp page as “Canadian hick children” and they live up to that description with their twangy, harmony-laden tunes. A nice change of pace after a night of heavier and more experimental bands, Hobby really hit the spot with their warm country rock sound. I heard a little Byrds and a lot of Grateful Dead in their music, with tunes like “Buck 75” and “Get You There” standing out as a couple of the highlights. 

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