About

You Look Death.ly

You Look Death.ly is a project developed by two record labels: Hand Drawn Dracula, and Unfamiliar Records. Both are based in Canada, and both really love music, design, film, and culture. This site is intended to showcase not only what the labels are doing, but what inspires them, and what may inspire others; we focus on Canada, but we aren’t limited to that scope.

This is about assembling a catalog of things we appreciate. We won’t post things we don’t like. We won’t post things just because they’re made by our friends. And if you’d like to submit to YLD? Feel free to contact us.

Hand Drawn Dracula

Hand Drawn Dracula Records is an independent Toronto-based label founded by friends who work in various faculties of the Canadian music industry. After almost 10 years of working the Dependent Music collective, Brian Borcherdt and James Mejia formed Hand Drawn Dracula with the same principles of friendship, art and music that saw Dependent artists achieve worldwide success. The label’s mandate is to help each other achieve artistic goals and to produce quality projects that we are proud to present.

The label roster includes Bad Tits, Bishop Morocco, Brian Borcherdt, By Divine Right, Contrived, Julie Fader, Off the International Radar, Postdata and Wintersleep. In addition, the label has created a series of collaborative projects with Black Moth Super Rainbow, Holy Fuck and Shugo Tokumaru.

Unfamiliar Records

Unfamiliar Records was founded in 2005 by Greg Ipp. Intended to be an occasional vehicle through which to release music by friends, Unfamiliar took on an expanded mandate when Edo Van Breemen joined as A&R/Label Manager in 2008. Focusing on independent Canadian artists, the label aims to release music that is diverse, perhaps divisive, but – ultimately – interesting and captivating.

The label roster currently includes Actual Water, Brasstronaut, Makeout Videotape, No Gold, and RatTail. Artists who have released on Unfamiliar include The Clips, Flowers Of Hell, Japandroids, The Paper Cranes, Snailhouse and The Two Koreas.