(photo: Meghan-Wyn Ferris)

After a week of reading online discussions/diatribes about the state of Canadian music and its artistic merits versus commercial appeal, it’s nice to put on a record like Are You Afraid of The Danks? and just give a collective middle finger to the whole damn argument.  The Danks don’t have time for  debate, or discussions; they have no room for sentimentality or superfluous verses; their power pop is short, sharp and over too soon.  The band features Brohan Moore, Phil McIsaac, Alec O’Hanley, and Andrew McDonald (O’Hanley and McDonald are also in Two Hours Traffic) as Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island’s saviours of rock n’ roll.  The play pogo-inducing rock that bleeds maple leaf red, and captures the joyous spirit of an indie band having a blast doing what they do and knowing they do it very, very well.

After the promise of last year’s Samples EP, The Danks have delivered in spades with Are You Afraid of The Danks?, and are sure to shake the foundations of bars and concert halls across this great nation of ours over the next year.  Info at their Myspace page only indicates a pair of shows in Cornerbrooke and St. John, NFLD, this month (both with Two Hours Traffic), but as word of this album spreads, so too will demand.  The Danks are the prefect soundtrack to summertime fun, and they’ll be sur to warm our hearts on a deep dark winter night.  Afraid of The Danks?  What the heck for?

MP3: The Danks “Die Young”
Myspace: The Danks