Courtesy Blush
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Courtesy Blush is a rock
Rock music
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 band from Thornhill, Ontario
Thornhill, Ontario
Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...

, Canada, which has been together since 2002. Courtesy Blush has toured Europe twice since forming, and sold some of their albums there, and is currently planning to tour the United States. The band has also toured parts of Ontario
Ontario
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. They also have a large audience in Europe and Canada. The four musicians teamed up with producer Matt Dematteo (who produced bands like Mobile
Mobile (band)
Mobile were a Canadian Alternative Rock band from Montreal initially composed of Mathieu Joly , Christian Brais , Pierre-Marc Hamelin , Dominic Viola and Frank Williamson . Their debut album, Tomorrow Starts Today, was released in 2006. The band was nominated for two Juno Awards in 2007 and went...

) to record the band's first record: Sweet Modern Fairy Tales. Their albums are also sold at Napster
Napster
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 and HMV
HMV
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.

Sweet Modern Fairy Tales

Courtesy Blush have an EP called Sweet Modern Fairy Tales. The album was recorded and produced by Matt Dematteo at Record High Studios, mastered by Andy Krehm at Silverbirch Productions, and has artwork by Pedja Milosavljević. Track listing:
  1. La Ber Sae – 4:21
  2. Tonight is to Die – 3:15
  3. An Afternoon with a Heart-Shaped Balloon – 4:46
  4. The Video is a Tightly Kept Secret – 4:30
  5. Love, Love – 2:39
  6. You are in Control Annie – 3:19
  7. Starlight of Empty Nights – 4:48
  8. A New Comedy – 4:45

Demo

Their 2007 Demo is a rough recording of 3 of their songs from their 2007 EP; The Faces E.P. The 3 songs on this demo are Eight Circuits, Autopsy is a Dying Practise and Seams. The demo has some noticeable differences from the EP (i.e. The intro to Autopsy is a Dying Practise is changed in the E.P. and the intro to Seams is no longer played on only on guitar. Ben Reinhartz plays an intro to it on piano with guitar in the background) The demo was given out for free at few Courtesy Blush concerts and is now unavailable. It was recorded at JG Studios in Toronto.

The Faces E.P.

Their latest album CD is a 7-song E.P. entitled The Faces E.P. was recorded at Sleepytown Sound. The song list is:

1. Eight Circuits

2. Elements and Principles

3. User Guide

4. Teeth Like Chalk

5. Autopsy is a Dying Practice

6. Seams

7. DRV

Albums

Date of release Title Label Album type
2004 Sweet Modern Fairy Tales Bad Samaritan Records EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

2007 Demo 2007 Independent
Independent record label
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Demo
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

The Faces E.P. EP

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