An eleven-piece band of time-traveling troubadours, The Unsettlers specialize in dark polkas, menacing waltzes, horse-drawn lullabies and funeral dirges for the living - all filtered through the creaking floorboards of a whiskey-soaked saloon. Based in Montreal, the lineup features a contortionist, multiple vocalists, clarinet, accordion, violin, horns, guitar, piano, bass, and trashcan drums. Sounding peculiarly familiar, darkly celebratory, and maniacally assured, The Unsettlers have gathered a devoted following with their haunting, windswept vocal harmonies and pulsing, danceable blend of Klezmer, Beat poetry, and big-top dixie.
Since forming in 2007, The Unsettlers have played over 200 shows, including: multiple appearances at Windsor's Festival Epicure, Pop Montreal, and Montreal Fringe; a month as featured entertainment at Carnivale Lune Bleue, a 1930s-style carnival based on the HBO series Carnivale; and most recently the evening finale on the Tree Stage at Montreal's Osheaga festival. The Unsettlers also recently brought their creeping madness to the Revival Nightclub as part of the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear "Night of the New Flesh"
DISCO OIL
1. Fold Back the Black
2. Show Me to the PineTree
3. Mother
4. Circus Circus .45
5. Graveyard Club
6. Rosa Dimes
7. Dead and Gone
8. The Fall that Lulls the Clock
9. Where the Matter Mends
10. Always Leaving
11. Cincinnati Shakedown
12. Dear Delilah
13. The Fires Built by the Arson Guild
DISCO BLOOD
1. Two Dead at the Five and Dime
2. The Mud
3. The Eyes of the Pines
4. Boots
5. A Bell Hop's Lament
6. Disco Junkie
7. Tie a Rope
8. The Washing of the Sins
9. The Trizzle
10. Where Were You?
11. Jonny Boy
12. Minor Breakdown
13. Oil and Blood