After spending most of the summer playing outdoor music festivals across Canada, Toronto’s instrumental collective The Hylozoists are ready to hit to road again, in an effort to bring their special brand of orchestral-pop to the masses. The Hylozoists are starting things off in London this Saturday, September 22nd at the LOLA Festival before heading off for a proper tour with The Besnard Lakes, beginning in Vancouver on September 27th.

The Hylozoists recently re-released their critically acclaimed and long out of print debut,…

At long last, The Hylozoists have a web site, and not just one page promising a new site in the vague and non-committal, distant/near future. You can stream La Fin Du Monde in its entirety, or look at photos, or see the nice things bloggers and the press have to say about the band… The scroll bar is a ball of string on top of a swirl of string that is very easily missed, so pay attention or you’ll only be…

The Hylozoists’ long-awaited sophomore album La Fin du Monde, released in Canada just a few weeks ago, is out now in the USA where, just like in Canada, it is taking college radio by storm. La Fin du Monde hasn’t left the top 5 on the Canadian college and campus radio charts in well over a month, and this week it entered America’s CMJ charts at #50!

Featuring a rotating cast of exemplary players - a veritable “who’s who” list of Canadian musicians,…

The music of Toronto-based instrumental band The Hylozoists lends itself well to lofty analogies: one listener might liken it to a soundtrack in search of an arthouse film, another might find it ideal accompaniment for a macabre carnival carousel, or perhaps if Fellini and Leone had started a circus, their organ grinders would have churned out music akin what you will hear on The Hylozoists long-awaited sophomore album La Fin Du Monde.

Formed in Seabright, Nova Scotia by musician / engineer / producer…