Wednesday 15 December 2010



Stamp

The Rural Alberta Advantage release first track from Departing

(photo: Vanessa Heins)

Damn!  This couldn’t have come at a worse time!  I have a horrible, splitting headache that’s causing my nose to bleed, and I’m feeling like a used up cardboard box, but there’s brand new music from The Rural Alberta Advantage just waiting to be downloaded in my inbox!  The track is called “Stamp”, from their forthcoming LP Departing (March 1 via Paper Bag), and it’s too tempting not to listen to it right now, so headache or not, I’m diving in.

“Stamp” makes its mark with a staccato-like guitar strum that soon blows open to reveal pounding drums, crashing synths, and Nils Edenloff’s signature vocal wails.  It follows a similar blueprint to the songs on Hometowns but “Stamp” is ballsier, brasher, more in-your-face than their first record.  It wouldn’t be overstatement to say that Departing is one of the more highly anticipated releases on the Canadian music scene schedule for 2011, and from the sounds of it, The Rural Alberta Advantage haven’t caved into the pressure of having to follow a successful debut.  If “Stamp” is any indication, the new record has all of the great stuff we first loved about The RAA, with more of it.

MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage “Stamp”
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