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Honours for most eccentric rock album we've heard this week go to D.T.Delinquent, the new outburst from Hamilton journeyman Jack Pedler.  Hell, for good measure we'll even call it the oddest album of the first five weeks of 2003 - it's the least we can do given its onslaught of sax bleats, piled high guitars and jagged rock operatic chouses with gruff -voiced Pedler looming Zappa-like over the top.  Stuffed beneath that ambitious, if cracked, surface is a fermented punk cynicism needed to put across his meditations on "Hippy Fascists" and other assorted miscreants.  Pedler got his start as a drummer for Buxton Kastle - with whom a pubescent Daniel Lanois  would knotch up his first production credit - and later worked with Teenage Head and Coyote Shivers.  The odd Killdozer flashbacks aside, his closest contemporary these days is U.S.surrealist toubadour Johnny Dowd, with whom he shares both a wonky song style and a disregard for the kind of hip nostalgia he could be milking.  
Eye Weekly
Toronto
Feb6,2003
Trust in Jack !      
             Jacks newest Cd, "D.T.Delinquent" is now distributed in Canada through Sonic Unyon.
                           Can't Say I'm A Recluse
                                Flies Buzzin' My Caboose
                                Pant's Down Passed Out In The Park
                                Suckin' Up Dumpster Juice
                                ..."Dumpster Juice"

"One night I had a dream about Gene Krupa, and when I woke up I could play the ratamacues."

  So began Jack Pedler's musical journey. Touched from beyond by a legendary big-band drummer, Pedler packed up his drum kit and joined the rock 'n roll circus. Playing along the way with Coyote Shivers and the  Waco Brothers, Jack also did a stint with punk godfathers Teenage Head -- Canada's answer to the Ramones.
    After years of hard time on the road Pedler evolved into a phenomenal live drummer and a gifted multi-instrumentalist, developing his supernaturally bestowed talent into a steady living.
   Then his father died and everything changed.
"I've been reborn twice, first as a musician and then as an artist. When my dad went to the next world he left his gifts here with me."
  It was the day after his father's passing that Jack Pedler began writing the material which would become
 Fairyland it Ain't, his debut album
available October 6 on Mutiny Records. The album is a collection of freaked-out fables, featuring fantastic characters that could out fight, out drink, and out cuss anything from Conan the Barbarian to Charles Bukowski. Running the gamut of Pedler's life experiences,
Fairyland it Ain't details the  lives of the down and out who have slipped through the cracks of a consumer-obsessed society. "Little Bobby" throws old folks in front of cars while the 45-year-old virgin "Queenie" sits in her trailer awaiting salvation, popping pills and drinking cheap wine. In Fairyland, your highest aspiration is to score a drink at the hotel bar while second-rate classic rock blares in the background.
  Davide Gentile, former bassist of New York post-hardcore darlings Orange 9mm, and Coyote Shivers lend their talents to Fairyland it  Ain't's diverse mix of sounds. From the dirge-like psychosis of "Dumpster Juice" to the Hawkwind-inspired space-rock of "Knees Deep", Fairyland pulls together more musical references than you can shake a stick at, mining everything from World War II victory songs (Meathermometer) to classic AC/DC ("Sitting