No one took the end of the Sunday night Wavelength series harder than our own emcee, Doc Pickles. And it's easy to understand why — Doc's personal schedule doesn't allow him to party it up on weekends like the rest of us, so Sundays were his night to hang out, have fun and hear new music. Doc has put his additional free time over the last six weeks to good use though, and taking this opportunity to put his own music first. Those who only know him as "the guy who introduces the bands at Wavelength" may be surprised to know that Doc Pickles is one of Toronto's most active D.I.Y. singer/songwriters, with dozens of tape, CD-R and online releases to his credit.Trying to catalogue Doc's discography would be a librarian's nightmare, as he is known to go back and change titles, running orders and formats as he sees fit, and with his tendency to hand-Sharpie the credits on each and every copy, you can never say you've got the "definitive object" on your hands. A fuck-you to the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? Or just maximum creative output on a minimal budget? You never know with Doc.

In keeping with this established tradition, Doc recorded two albums' — or "audiozines," as he calls them — worth of material in the weeks following the end of the Wavelength 500 festival. Move The Cube was recorded March 8-17, 2010, followed with barely a breather by Throughth on March 20-31, 2010. Doc made both available online immediately, and then he announced a third album available for free download, Tesseract (or Tesserat, on some copies). Closer inspection reveals this 16-track collection to be the "best of" both records, and as Pickles notes, "the songs have been correctly sequenced, mastered and compressed in the unlikely event that a track from Tesseract is played at a Manchester rave or on a luxury yacht."

The songs? Vintage Pickles, of course. Inspired by the lo-fi immediacy of Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard and "naive pop" bands like The Shaggs, Doc doesn't waste time with fancy arrangements and usually lays the songs down as they come to him on his Casio keyboard. As with many of the nuggets in Doc's canon, repeated listens are required to discover all the lyrical Easter Eggs. While so far I don't know if Tesseract has an all-time classic like "Teach Your Pets to Smoke," "Xena" or "The Ballad of Netstar Communications," I can't get the chorus to "Possibly Possible" out of my head: "And if you're thinking what I'm thinking / Then maybe the Earth is thinking." Doc Pickles: the space-age hylozoic mystic poet in our midst. No joke.