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There's a ringing majesty to "Turpentine", the first single from The Manvils’ new self-titled album, released August 11, 2009 through upstart Vancouver indie label Sandbag Records. It comes in with a magnetic little flourish from Mikey Manville’s white, 1956 Gibson Les Paul Jr., a beefy double-time beat and chiming wall of guitar, and the kind of covertly brilliant chorus that REM used to manufacture out of thin air.

In total, the song comes clad in echoes of all your favourites, from the Clash to the Who. "I really wanted to start the record with something that had the best characteristics of The Manvils," says vocalist-guitarist-songwriter Manville. "The psychedelia, the blues, screaming guitars, and big drums."

It's a decisive and muscular way to start a record, and with expectations this high, it oughta be. The Manvils' 2006 debut Buried Love cemented the reputation of the Vancouver-based four-piece after barely a year of explosive live performances.

They starred in a national Budweiser ad campaign that aired during both the Super Bowl and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, contributed eight songs to the soundtrack of the 2008 Space network thriller Never Cry Werewolf, provided the musical score for the CBC Humanity award-winning documentary Moscow Freestyle, and set out on a major North American tour that saw them in New York, L.A. and Toronto three times in six months.

And in a city notorious for its self-loathing, The Manvils struck a rare chord, eventually achieving the near unthinkable with a sold-out release party at one of the Vancouver’s most auspicious mid-sized venues for the 2007 EP Strange Disaster.