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Here are some bits of selected buzz from ARCTIC’s recent May/June cross-Canada tour:

• “If there were a soundtrack to the Arctic, a set of sounds that properly represented desolately beautiful spaces, this would be it.”
  - Echo Weekly
• “Arctic Take Cool, Green Vibes On Tour”
  - ChartAttack
• “Actually, what Today Brought Me Here sounds like is a sane version of Thom Yorke’s The Eraser –- and that is meant to be a compliment because Arctic’s intense focus means better songs.”
  - Popjournalism
• “The music from Arctic’s new CD Today Brought Me Here offers up the desultory loneliness of the Northwest Territories where Marcus grew up.”
  - The Hamilton Spectator

The band will be touring again in September/October.

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On Thursday, May 1, ARCTIC performed a full set on Vancouver’s CiTR 101.9. Three tracks, “You Coming Down", “No Trace", and a new song, “Through the Spaces", are now available on the band’s Listen page.

This May/June, ARCTIC will hit the road for a month-long cross-country Band Expedition. Confirmed dates are:

May 10: Wired Monk, Vancouver, BC
May 13: The Gaslight, Regina, SK
May 14: Mondragon, Winnipeg, MB
May 15: The Apollo, Thunder Bay, ON
May 16: Loplop’s, Sault Ste Marie, ON
May 17: Tranzac, Toronto, ON (Marcus Martin solo)
May 20: Albion Hotel, Guelph, ON
May 21: The Boat, Toronto, ON
May 22: Bar St. Laurent 2, Montreal, QC
May 24: Maxwell’s Music House, Waterloo, ON
May 26: The Casbah, Hamilton, ON
May 28: The Spill, Peterborough, ON
May 29: Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield (near Ottawa), QC
May 30: The Atria, Oshawa, ON
May 31: Phog Lounge, Windsor, ON
Jun 3: The Apollo, Thunder Bay, ON
Jun 4: The Cavern, Winnipeg, MB
Jun 6: The Stetson, Calgary, AB
Jun 7: Grateful Fed, Kelowna, BC

Full details are on the band’s Tour page.

ARCTIC’s song “You Coming Down” was chosen by Music BC to represent British Columbia artists on a compilation CD, which will be available at MIDEM 2008 in Cannes, France, and at various Canadian Consulates. Other artists selected for the compilation include TV Heart Attack, Immaculate Machine, and John Mann (of Spirit of the West).

ambientARCTIC has just released its first full-length CD: Explorer, an instrumental album from Marcus Martin and Kirsten Starcher of ARCTIC. The album is available both on CD and as digital downloads through Amie Street, and can be heard in its entirety at www.ambientarctic.com.