PRESS - How to have sex with Canadians: Not (just) a Lonely Planet guidebook

By Dave Jaffer, Hour Magazine, Montreal

In what has to be the frontrunner for album title of the year, Toronto's The DoneFors have announced the release of How to have sex with Canadians. To celebrate the occasion, The DoneFors are playing a host of dates in February all around Ontario and Quebec (insofar as "one gig in Montreal, on Valentine's Day," equals "all around" Quebec).

Whether they plan to actively teach crowds how to have sex with Canadians remains to be seen.

Led by chanteuse Janine Stoll (whose next solo album, Melancholia, is dropping in 2009), and including members of Mr. Something Something and SuperstacK, The DoneFors are a four-piece whose style defies labelization. Uh, genrefication. Let's just say you can't stick it in a pigeonhole. A little bit of jazz, a little bit of country, and then some folk, some rock, some pop, and then even more, it's seems that The DoneFors bring that much-lauded Toronto diversity thing to their musical stylings.

And it's to be respected.

Don't believe us? You don't have to, because you can head over to thedonefors.com or myspace.com/donefors to hear for yourself. The DoneFors deal in unmistakably Canadian music that the band refers to as Canadiana Vanguard.

To see if The DoneFors are in your neck o' the woods on their upcoming spate of tour dates, check below. If they're not playing in your town, either drive to where they're playing or write them via their MySpace and tell them they should come and play wherever you're at.

Thursday, February 12 -The Supermarket, Toronto ON (with Miss Emily Brown and James Lamb)
Friday, February 13 - Irene's Pub, Ottawa ON (with Lyndell Montgomery)
Saturday, February 14 - Centre St. Ambroise, Montreal PQ (with Miss Emily Brown and James Lamb)
Thursday, February 19 - Pepper Jack Cafe, Hamilton ON (with The Subterraneans Collective)
Friday, February 20 - The London Music Club, London ON (with The Josh Geddis Band)
Saturday, February 21 - Jimmy Jazz, Guelph ON (with Ian Reid)
Thursday, February 26 - Maxwell's Music House, Waterloo ON
Friday, February 27 - Phog Lounge, Windsor ON (with James O-L and the Villains)

PRESS - The Donefors: How To Have Sex With Canadians, (Independent) ***

By Kathleen Bell, See Magazine, Edmonton (01/29/09)

The DoneFors' debut album isn't some kind of creepy instruction manual - no Cana Sutra here, thankfully. It is, however, an eclectic mix of Canadiana sailing to many a musical port, from the bossa nova-flavoured "The Narrator" to the quirky modern folk of "The Last Thing You Do." "Red Fish" stands out as a slinky jazz-club number that makes a Fiona Apple-ish brooding descent into self-discovery as the slow rumble of Liam Smith's electric bass underscores Janine Stoll's wispy moan of "You're a homicidal maniac and I love you." While other tracks have similarly dark and twisted lyrics, some feel crisp, young, and innocent, like "In a Cornfield"'s tumbling "Kiss me deep until there are no kisses left." Bands always wish critics couldn't tag 'em but we generally do anyway. The DoneFors, however, have the distinction of being genuinely hard to classify. Sometimes folky, sometimes poppy, sometimes jazzy, Sex With Canadians is just merge-y experimental fun.