The Dears
thedears.org/
Lo-fi
Cones
https://www.conestheband.com/
lo-fi dream pop
Zachary Blizzard
zacharyblizzard.bandcamp.com/
shoegaze folk-rock
"If you want all the facts, then yes, the story of the Dears did begin in Montreal in 1995, spurred on by cigarettes, pints, and too many nights of overanalyzing Smiths records. But that was so very long ago. Friends come and go, formative influences are outgrown like a hand-me-down iron-on t-shirt, idols must be killed.
If you want the real story, then we must start in April 2000, when the one original Dear, Murray Lightburn, hit the stage at Lee's Palace in Toronto flanked by a band of new recruits and welcomed us into his world--a place that, like his native Montreal, is built on romance and timeless beauty but scarred with reminders of a golden age that is long gone. Just as the band's orchestral crescendos threatened to collapse the stage, Lightburn dropped to his knees and screamed "There's no such thing as love!"
-new.music.yahoo.com