Diableros music CDs. Audio Remasterer: Noah Mintz. Personnel: Pete Carmichael (vocals, 12-string guitar); Ian Jackson (guitar); Matt Rubba (piano, organ, tambourine); Ian Worang (bass guitar); Phoebe Lee (drums). Audio Mixers: Pete Carmichael; Paul Aucoin. ...

Diableros discography. As omnipresent as both Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire have been over the last several years, the question isn't whether there would be new bands directly inspired by one or both, but why it's taken so long for those bands to show up. The debut full-length by Toronto sextet the Diableros is awkwardly pitched exactly halfway between the Arcade Fire's inclusive earnestness and Broken Social Scene's pulsating post-rock cool, only it's not nearly as good as either. The album's primary weakness is singer and lyricist Pete Carmichael, who is lacking in both departments. Vocally, Carmichael's thin, adenoidal warble is regularly sent through the sort of effects that have been an indie rock cliché ever since the first Strokes ...