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 Post subject: The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:43 am 
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With a name like the Rural Alberta Advantage and a debut album called Hometowns, one would hope for an unpretentious collection of amiable indie pop tunes filtered through the wistful lens of a Wes Anderson film, and that's exactly what you get. Singer/songwriter Nils Edenloff, along with Amy Cole and Paul Banwatt, craft lovelorn postcards to small town heartache, beloved and embittered friends and family, blue collar hardships, and the great big world around them with the kind of wide-eyed gusto that's extremely effective when played in front of a hundred sweaty, dancing kids at a house show in somebody's rented basement, but dribbles out of a pair of headphones like a leaky faucet. All too often, that energy is lost when a talented young band like this enters the studio, and RAA do their best to transcend the limitations of their home recorded calling card, but that energy eating reaper follows Hometowns around like a cop car on a Saturday night. If there was an award for "Most likeable album of 2009", RAA would win by a landslide. Nice try. Can't wait to hear the next one.


I really like this album. At times it can be a little precious and maybe a little melodramatic, but I still can't get these songs out of my head.

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They're another band of trusties from the ever-more-chic Bay View, no?

Fuck 'em, in that case.


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MAX TARDCORE Wrote:
They're another band of trusties from the ever-more-chic Bay View, no?

Fuck 'em, in that case.


They're from Alberta.

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DumpJack Wrote:
MAX TARDCORE Wrote:
They're another band of trusties from the ever-more-chic Bay View, no?

Fuck 'em, in that case.


They're from Alberta.


you consider the advantage to rural alberta that you dont have to drive as far to dispose of remains, right?

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 Post subject: Re: The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
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amiable indie pop tunes filtered through the wistful lens of a Wes Anderson film


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Judging from the song I heard on the radio recently, this band is terrible.


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Danny Don't Rapp Wrote:
Judging from the song I heard on the radio recently, this band is terrible.

DumpJack Wrote:
They're from Alberta.


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this album was my #3 last year, i really enjoyed it, sounds a little like jeff mangum

admittedly its just basically standard indie pop/rock but more enjoyable than most


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Radcliffe Wrote:
Danny Don't Rapp Wrote:
Judging from the song I heard on the radio recently, this band is terrible.

DumpJack Wrote:
They're from Alberta.


Actually they're out of Toronto by way Alberta. Any terribleness is because of Queen St. W.

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Danny Don't Rapp Wrote:
Judging from the song I heard on the radio recently, this band is terrible.


exactly


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They're nothing special, but I give them props for writing a song about Frank Slide.

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They're nothing special, but I give them props for writing a song about Frank Slide.


Agreed; also the crazy bridge here.

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