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How's this for Career?

Over the past few years, this Toronto-based collective has been blurring the line between noise and modern medicine. Following no script or rehearsed plan, the members of Career command an almost prescient aptitude for blending sounds in a hypnotic collection of (we’re not quite sure what genre it is, but let’s go with) experimental songs. With nothing but an arsenal of instruments, noisemakers, effect pedals, recording equipment, legally purchased beverages, a few printed popular song tabs from the internet, and a dream, they march into bedrooms, parks, and backyards, weaving a chaotic-but-morally-just blast of therapeutic sound waves and moment-inspired lyrics. Like a marriage-saving striptease, every song unfolds layer by layer in a highly repetitive instrumental ballad as each member jumps in to a tumbling snowball of semi-erotic rhythm, lacquered with guilty pleasure and a touch of mystery. Will the horns stay with the drums, or will they leave them for the guitars? Will it end in climax, or will it fizzle out in awkward asynchrony? No one, not even the songsmiths of Career, know the answers to these questions, but their lack of architecture and technical skill is no hindrance to their inspirational drive to heal the city with sound.

Tristan Murphy of Career

Career started in late 2006 with Chris Evers, Nick Kerr and Linton Murphy.
The plan for me has always been to have fun with my friends. We would get together in a room and make noise or music, depending on how you look at it. At first mostly with guitars and bass and drums, later bringing in Nick's trumpet, and crucially, the Murphy family drum-machine. Other things were used too, but lets not get list crazy. Soon Adam Grfnkl joined. One night on a bender, Nick crashed his red mazma miata into his backyard pool. Although he survived, both of his legs needed to be amputated. He could no longer drum for Career. Roughly at this point we started to get together at the Murphy family residence, and Tristan Murphy joined the band - replacing Nick's trumpet with his own, and bringing in his keyboard, accordion, and breathtaking falsetto vocals. This was also the beginning of Career being an open-door proposition - with lots of guests joining Career on many recordings. Career is going strong now, primarily with Tristan, Linton and Chris. All are welcome.
Early Career music was recorded on a 4-track tape recorder. More recently Career music is usually recorded directly to a robot.  I don't really like to talk in a philosophical way about Career. or maybe I'm not articulate or creative enough to think up a concept to shoehorn it into. To me it doesn't have to be about anything. If anything, it is about us. People interacting, finding a groove, or not. I don't really think it’s terribly experimental music in any way. One phrase that I do like to describe the sound of Career is "all please sound.” I think that is both humourous and accurate.   Lots of love always,  Chris Evers, of Career