Pecola was a Canadianmath rock
band active during the last half of the 1990s. Molded somewhat in the style of
San Diego,
California’s Drive
Like Jehu (especially considering the vocals, which is a
good thing), Pecola took Drive Like Jehu’s
mathy post-hardcore experimentation
and intensified it even further, to excellent results. At one point,
Pecola even toured with other illustrious bands such as Polvo and
fellow TorontoniansDo Make
Say Think.
The band is named for the protagonist of Toni Morrison’s “The
Bluest Eye” (). The name of their EP “Dat
Hoang” derives from a
Vietnamese phrase roughly
equivalent to the English “John
Smith”.
AllMusic has a biography of this band which you can read here
(archived).
notes on the distributions
Pecola’s split with Smallmouth is missing from
deadseapianorolls so far. As usual, if you can get a copy of this, please
contact deadseapianorolls! The distribution of
Pecola’s self-titled cassette is due to a Discogs user by the name
of theorchidshow, and was
“[s]hared with the permission of one member of Pecola”.
The distribution of “Planet Of Ugly” comes encoded as CBR 224kb/s
MP3, but the quality is much lower than you might expect from that. It
appears to just be a very poor digitization. Also, the 192kb/s version of
“The Mexican” is higher quality than the corresponding 256kb/s
version. The 256kb/s version appears to have been re-encoded from some
lower-bitrate MP3 (perhaps roughly 160 or even 128kb/s).
![cover art for “[split] Pecola / Smallmouth”](pecola-smallmouth.jpg)
![flattened cassette sleeve [2]](pecola-sleeve-2.jpg){kind=link}
