Indie Yes Nice Blindfolded **** Recent Edmonton ex-pats Nathaniel Wong and Scott McKellar — a.k.a Yes Nice — bare their souls on their beautiful and ethereal new album Blindfolded. The tracks are rich and full soundscapes; with lush orchestration, soaring background vocals, and mournful cello’s swirling around their songs of passion and longing. “Don’t you know it’s only cause you can’t/You want to love her like you love yourself,” Wongs mourns on the wistful “Only cause’ You Can’t.” Much of the album is dreamy meditation – the perfect soundtrack for gazing out your frost-whorled windowpanes at the tundra outside — but when the boys kick it up-tempo they have enough zeal to bring a smile to even the most jaded hipster. “I wanna wait for judgment day/You say ice and I say up in flames,” Scott McKellar belts with unbridled passion on the jubilant gallop of “Horses” — possibly the funnest song about the end of the world not written by R.E.M. Gorgeous and nuanced, Blindfolded will warm your heart on the coldest winter night. JOSH MARCELLIN See Magazine