Their fourth full-length studio album, Hope & Ruin, due on Bumstead Records on April 12, is a level-raising evolution for the Toronto-based rock band with two gold records, ten top-10 singles and 800-plus concerts logged. Recorded live-off-the-floor, they captured lightning in a bottle, resulting in a sound that is raw, electric and igniting.
From the trippy atmospherics of “Dreaming Man” to the harmony-filled minstrelsy closer “You Gotta Let Me,” rhythmical patter “One By One,” full-throttle rocker “People of the Deer,” soft rumination “Stay With Me” and buoyant first single, “Hope & Ruin,” the 12-song album has a feel that can only come from four guys that have played together for 14 years.
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I've seen The Trews and really enjoyed the show. For sure it's nothing ground-breaking, but as Billy Joel said "it's still rock n' roll to me". The song "Tired of Waiting" in particular became lodged in my head for days after.
As far as Canadian rock goes, I'd take The Trews over Nickelback or any of these little wannabe punk-pop bands that have sprung up in the wake of Sum 41's success.