(photo: Tobin Photography)
Funny things happen in the suburbs. You think the city would be a hotbed of talent and creativity, but leave it to bored suburban teenagers driving around in their mom’s Pathfinder to come up with some of the coolest sounds on record. Black Hat Brigade fits that shoe, in some respects, seeing as pals Robert Haughey, Justin Myler, Adam Peterson, Bryan David Ward, and Dan Hurst hail from Brampton, Ontario (Toronto’s crude younger brother, for those of you not in the know), and sound like all the best parts of Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear combined.
The band is celebrating the release of their second EP, Fathers, this Friday at Toronto’s El Macambo, before gearing up for an appearance at this year’s NXNE Festival June 18 at Toronto’s Drake Hotel. Fathers sounds like a post modern record of sea shanties (most notably “Signal Fire”), or long lost folk songs that have been resurrected and recorded by not-quite-so-angry young men. It;s quite the addictive little sampler, and a harbinger of great things to come, and from Brampton, none the less.
MP3: Black Hat Brigade “Zombie City Shake”
Myspace: Black Hat Brigade
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