Solids were a Canadian punk rock band from Montreal, Quebec, active in the 2010s.Paul Thompson, "Blame Confusion: Solids". Pitchfork, February 18, 2014.
Consisting of singer and guitarist Xavier Germain Poitras and drummer Louis Guillemette, the duo released their sole full-length album Blame Confusion on Fat Possum Records in 2014.Ian Gormely, "Solids, Blame Confusion". Exclaim!, February 17, 2014. The album was longlisted for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.Brad Wheeler, "Long list for the Polaris Prize is diverse, but not all-inclusive". The Globe and Mail, June 20. 2014.
They subsequently added Guillaume Chiasson as a second guitarist, and followed up in 2016 with the EP Else.Simon Coutu, "Montreal Punk Buds Solids Don't Want to Be Anyone Else, Even If They Are Kind of Metal". Noisey, May 20, 2016.
Their only further recording after Else was a cover of Daniel Johnston's "Silly Love", which they had recorded in 2010 but did not release until 2019, when they released it to Bandcamp as a charity single the day after Johnston's death.
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