Blake: More so a study in youthful exuberance than band qua band. Charts the glorious excess of the adolescence and in doing so, cannot but document its ultimate folly. Thrashed about with varying level of success for five odd years in the then-thriving suthern Ontario hardcore scene. Cite as major influences the death rumble of Shotmaker, and the apocalyptic math-frenzy of Okara.

Somehow, from the chaos of those times, managed to churn out a four song seven inch on Ottawa label Spectrasonic Sound (www.spectrasonic.com) and a split seven inch with Spirit on Organic records out of Australia. Conducted a brief but successful tour of the United States in the summer of 1999, accompanied on most dates by Troubleman hopefuls, American Heritage. The present eponymous release serves to bookmark Blake's career, in presenting recordings from 1996 (at the apex of naive intensity) and 1999 (the most introspective moments of Blake's "blue period"). Blake though driven to collapse by their always-explosive inner tension, is varously reincarnated as: rockets red glare, sympathy girls, Picastro & Black Room Party.