Royal Canoe Today We'Re Believers Vinyl LP 2013

TRACKLISTING

LP 1
Today We're Believers
Hold On To The Metal
Just Enough

Exodus Of The Year
Bathtubs
Button Fumbla

LP 2
Show Me Your Eyes
Birthday
Nightcrawlin

Stemming
Light
If I Had A House

Royal Canoe is a group of musicians on a mission to construct ambitious, inventive music. To do this, they are armed with voices, guitars, effects pedals, tambourines, shakers, two drummers and a six-keyboard super-weapon. The songs are thick with catchiness, rich in rhythm and are consistently pushing against the boundaries of pop music. They spend almost every day in a sh*t-hole rehearsal space writing hooks, singing through effects pedals, scrawling lyrics on scraps of paper, and constructing heavy beats in odd time signatures. They create samples by running conventional sounds through unconventional pieces of gear, drumming on bathtubs and garbage cans, listening to Big Boi and manipulating bits of old records. The band calls Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada home the enigmatic prairie city, which has served artists as both an abundant, creative watering hole and a debilitating quagmire. The city\'s mood swings from euphoric summers spent biking with beers, fence-hopping residential pools and climbing abandoned roof-tops to harsh, bitter winters that are countered first with defiance, then self-loathing, then denial, then you've got to be f*cking kidding me. Royal Canoe's songs are, in part, an effort to make sense of the resentment and romanticism of the city's divergent identities.