Last year The Torrent released two new singles for Blocks Recording Club, Life Boat and Leopold Bloom. The songs are on the Building Blocks Volume 1 vinyl compilation LP, which came out in March 2010.
The Torrent’s first LP, Leonora Moreno, came out in 2009. In the Toronto Star, Ben Rayner said it was "a sexy/nasty slab of droning electro-pop sleaze, and my new favourite thing."
The Torrent is not named after a download protocol.
Michael Barry: electric guitar/keys
Mike e.b. was in the Hidden Cameras for many years,
and now plays with psych-noise band LSDoubleDCup.
He also starred as Bart the security guard in the 2004 cult classic
Dawn of the Dead. He plays a skinhead in Atom Egoyan’s Adoration.
Cameron Groves: vox/keys
Working with Philippe Blanchard and dancer Brodie Stevenson, Cameron is part of an experimental video/music project called Night Visions.
In 2010 he did music for a segment of dance piece Inherencies and Other Disorders, collaborating with Darryl Tracy and Keith Cole.
He put together the videos for Musik Machine and Catherine Deneuve, and a few other short films.
His solo thing is called dreamcats.
photo: David Hawe
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