The Flints

Artist Information

Biography

The Flints are Stan Flint, Al Huizenga, Peter Hudson, Stephen Scarrow, and Aron Harris. They live in the cities of Toronto and Hamilton, along the north shore and at the westernmost tip of Lake Ontario, respectively. They’ve been performing around Ontario for about five years, and have played NXNE, Canadian Music Week, the GO! Music Festival in Kitchener, and the Brampton Indie Arts Festival. They have released a 5-song EP, a Christmas single, and most recently a new full length album in 2009.

Recorded by Peter Hudson at Hallamusic Recording in Toronto, "Shutting Down Airports" delivers twelve tightly knit folk-pop songs that trace their way around classic themes: love, heartache, loss, and redemption. While not precisely a concept album, "Airports" is definitely a regional journey. It’s flavored with images and sounds from life in the Golden Horseshoe, home to Canada’s most industrialized corridor and also some of its most beautiful geography. The album is front-loaded with two songs titled after the Great Lakes that define the area: "Erie", a personal lament about being deceived by beauty, and "Ontario", a poem to the idea and geography of the province.

Instrumentation

Stan Flint - Acoustic guitar and vocals
Al Huizenga - Piano and organ
Aron Harris - Bass guitar
Peter Hudson - Electric guitar
Stephen Scarrow - Drums

Discography

Shutting Down Airports - 2009
Merry Christmas From The Flints - Single, 2007
There Used to be a Time - EP, 2005

Audio

• Erie
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• I Could've Swore
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• Shutting Down Airports
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Press

• 'There Used To Be a Time' by The Flints [+ Show ]
  

  "...Seemingly bursting at the seams with catchy tunes and witty lyrics. There Used To Be A Time is ..."...Seemingly bursting at the seams with catchy tunes and witty lyrics. There Used To Be A Time is one of those CDs that you catch your self grinning to and listening on repeat without growing tired of the music....you’ll find yourself experiencing a sense of wonder, as though something mind-blowing just flew through the room but you didn’t get a chance to get your head around it before it was gone."

• The Flints [+ Show ]
  

  "Pretty tunes from Canada where it snows all the time. Country, poppish, and Melodic. Lead singer ..."Pretty tunes from Canada where it snows all the time. Country, poppish, and Melodic. Lead singer has a great voice and the band is very tight."

• The Flints' St. Paddies Day Thing [+ Show ]
  

  "The set just got better as they played, enticing the audience to sing along (twice!) and clap along..."The set just got better as they played, enticing the audience to sing along (twice!) and clap along as well on at least three different songs. The Flints sound is laid back, melodic, sweet and endearing. They shy away from jagged edges in favour of softer chords, but they have a bounce that makes them lively and engaging in sight and sound. Some of the newer and unrecorded tunes were even more striking than the older ones..."

• The Flints - There Used To Be a Time [+ Show ]
  

  "...A fine introduction to the Flints Beatles-ish pop sounds...great arrangements and scads of guest..."...A fine introduction to the Flints Beatles-ish pop sounds...great arrangements and scads of guests from the Toronto scene...There's not a stinker in the bunch. All five tracks are good..."

• A New Face [+ Show ]
  

  "When I first heard the Flints' song Girl, I thought it was very nice. It's a nice song with a song ..."When I first heard the Flints' song Girl, I thought it was very nice. It's a nice song with a song song with a nice singer. That's always great. It's a very lush song about a girl who goes away from her hometown and turns into something she's not.
  I can associate with the whole small town thing. It's weird going back when you've seen something bigger than a small town. All the drama is childish and the people seem almost backwards or stuck in their own business.
  Anyway, the Flints' (who happen to be from Toronto) songs bring me a lot of those feelings, and the instrumentation sounds at much like if Wilco and maybe the Decemberists decided to switch some band members."

Setlist

The Flints are currently doing an hour long set of songs from their new album, Shutting Down Airports, plus a few old favorites (we only very rarely play covers as a lark).

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