Kenn Coutu: vocals, guitar
Aran Puritch: bass
Ryan Rae: drums

Biography

A band is like a person - the more you get to know it, the deeper it becomes.

When Armchair Cynics released the Killing the Romance EP in 2005, the Victoria-based four piece established itself as a sturdy modern rock outfit in a market already crowded with sturdy modern rock outfits.

And the Cynics might have disappeared forever inside that too-often dreary throng if it hadn't been for the nuances rattling around inside numbers like "Bang" and "Surprise Ending" - an almost covert pop sensibility behind the arrangements and atypical chord changes that lifted Killing the Romance out of its stubbornly earthbound genre.

With its 2009 full-length Starting Today, Armchair Cynics is finally revealing how deep those nuances run, allowing that pop sensibility to bloom fully, and lifting the veil

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