Here’s an article by Alexander Varty in the September 18th issue of the Georgia Straight

The theme of this year’s New Forms Festival, which takes place at various Vancouver venues from tonight to September 27, is mosaics. And when event organizers asked Fond of Tigers bandleader Stephen Lyons to curate an evening of music, he nearly responded with flippant perversity.

“I thought about it for a while and almost did a tribute to Moses,” he reports, interviewed by telephone from his Vancouver home. “But I figured that wasn’t the best way to go.”

Granted, if any local band could pull off an art-rock opera about the Ten Commandments, it would be Fond of Tigers: the all-instrumental septet’s ability to morph between twittering electronic soundscapes and bent, brassy anthems could be put to good use behind various poetic meditations or ranting discourses on greed, sloth, covetousness, and lust. Lyons might well want to revisit that original impulse.

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Here’s a recent article from Soundproof Magazine, by Cheryl Stornelli

As music lovers we’ve become too accustomed to constantly attempting to decipher lyrics and the hidden messages within an artist’s song. The real secret is that most songs aren’t meant to instill the same feelings the lyricist had at the time of writing. Most songs are simply meant to be felt and self-interpreted, which is exactly how Vancouver’s Fond of Tigers have so far intended it.
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We’re really looking forward to the WORLD PREMIERE of two pieces of music which were written based on the co-mingling of the most recent Fond of Tigers and Secret Mommy albums. The show is at Open Studios in Vancouver and features, appropriately enough, Fond of Tigers and Secret Mommy.

Click here for more details from the New Forms Festival Website.