Biography
Montreal musician Jackson MacIntosh played a central role in the city's indie rock community throughout the 2010s. He sang and played guitar in Sheer Agony, handled bass duties in TOPS, helped operate a studio that captured sessions for Homeshake and numerous other acts, and issued his own recordings under his given name.
His earliest work came with the noisy indie rock outfit Play Guitar, where he performed on multiple instruments for the (Rated) PG album issued early in 2010 and the self-titled LP that appeared later that same year. Around this period MacIntosh joined Christian Simmons and Mike Wright to launch the Drones Club, a combined recording studio and performance venue that quickly became a hub for local bands. MacIntosh and Simmons simultaneously formed the buzzy new wave and power pop outfit Sheer Agony, which issued the single Hungry? Why Wait in early 2011. Two further singles followed in 2012 while the Drones Club continued hosting sessions. MacIntosh appeared on fellow Montreal artist Jef Barbara's 2013 release Soft to the Touch, and Sheer Agony began tracking material for its debut album. The Drones Club also provided the setting for Homeshake's first record, In the Shower, released in 2014, as well as the group's follow-up, Midnight Snack, in 2015. That same year saw the arrival of Sheer Agony's cheekily titled Masterpiece, on which MacIntosh broadened his songwriting from spiky power pop into the classic territory of late-'60s and early-'70s pop.
Activity increased over the next several years. MacIntosh kept engineering sessions for various acts, including another Homeshake project, supplied bass both live and on record for TOPS throughout 2016 and 2017, contributed a track to Drugdealer's 2017 album End of Comedy, prepared songs for a second Sheer Agony LP, and assembled a solo album consisting of material that did not suit the band. Ballad-heavy and indebted to the smooth sounds of Todd Rundgren's early period, not to mention prime Harry Nilsson and the Zombies, the project required three years to complete and stood among the final recordings made at the now-defunct Drones Club. Sinderlyn Records issued My Dark Side in March of 2018.
His earliest work came with the noisy indie rock outfit Play Guitar, where he performed on multiple instruments for the (Rated) PG album issued early in 2010 and the self-titled LP that appeared later that same year. Around this period MacIntosh joined Christian Simmons and Mike Wright to launch the Drones Club, a combined recording studio and performance venue that quickly became a hub for local bands. MacIntosh and Simmons simultaneously formed the buzzy new wave and power pop outfit Sheer Agony, which issued the single Hungry? Why Wait in early 2011. Two further singles followed in 2012 while the Drones Club continued hosting sessions. MacIntosh appeared on fellow Montreal artist Jef Barbara's 2013 release Soft to the Touch, and Sheer Agony began tracking material for its debut album. The Drones Club also provided the setting for Homeshake's first record, In the Shower, released in 2014, as well as the group's follow-up, Midnight Snack, in 2015. That same year saw the arrival of Sheer Agony's cheekily titled Masterpiece, on which MacIntosh broadened his songwriting from spiky power pop into the classic territory of late-'60s and early-'70s pop.
Activity increased over the next several years. MacIntosh kept engineering sessions for various acts, including another Homeshake project, supplied bass both live and on record for TOPS throughout 2016 and 2017, contributed a track to Drugdealer's 2017 album End of Comedy, prepared songs for a second Sheer Agony LP, and assembled a solo album consisting of material that did not suit the band. Ballad-heavy and indebted to the smooth sounds of Todd Rundgren's early period, not to mention prime Harry Nilsson and the Zombies, the project required three years to complete and stood among the final recordings made at the now-defunct Drones Club. Sinderlyn Records issued My Dark Side in March of 2018.
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