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BROOD have always been time travellers. The Toronto trio writes songs
steeped in history that feel very present. They've done their share of
actual travelling, too, these musical troubadours, acoustic guitars and
banjos slung over their sharp suits as they barnstormed across Canada
and beyond. For the new album Days Into Years it was century-old stories
encountered an ocean away that brought them closest to home. On the
band's first European tour back in 2007 they found themselves driving
through the backroads of France. Vocalist Mark Sasso, guitarist Casey
Laforet and drummer Stephen Pitkin, all enthusiasts of military history,
raised on the harrowing stories of Canadians in World War 1, were
simply looking to avoid the toll highways. Then they came upon a sign
for a WW1 military cemetery.
"We'd been driving through Belgium and
France, always passing by these historical war places and we decided to
pull over and take this one in," recalls Mark. "We saw all these
Canadian names, and it really resonated with us, these young guys that
had gone off to war. I knew all about it from reading books, but when
you actually visit a place where the battles were, it hits you a lot
harder. We said, 'We need to write a record about it.'" Days Into Years
is Elliott BROOD's third full-length recording, the follow-up to 2008's
Polaris Prize short-listed Mountain Meadows. Like its predecessors,
including the 2004 debut EP Tin Type and 2006's Juno-nominated
Ambassador, it mines real history to connect songs that are deeply
personal in a cinematic, narrative way. Unfolding like a series of movie
scenes, it looks to the future by starting with the past. Opening track
"Lindsay" invites you into process of revisiting one's life while
cleaning out an old family home. "If I Get Old" daydreams of making it
through difficult times, be they in the trenches or a sickbed, and
finding a nice place in the country to live out one's final moments.
Days Into Years presents these reflections as a celebration of life,
particularly on the perfect summer single "Northern Air", a love letter
both to the rural Ontario landscape and the memory of a departed friend
whose spirit now resides there.
Recorded with co-producer John
Critchley at Green Door Studios in Toronto and Avening Town Hall (a
former army barracks) in rural Ontario, the album showcases a more amped
up Elliott BROOD that will put the knell to the "death country" tag
that described their early work. Now, the roof-raising rhythm stomp and
mandolin collides with luscious harmonies, piano and, for the first
time, electric guitar in a mix Casey admits is "loud, heavy and rock 'n'
roll." Since forming in 2002, Elliot BROOD has become a Canadian music
institution. (The 2004 campus radio hit "Oh, Alberta!" remains a
national treasure.) But after touring with acts like Wilco, Blue Rodeo,
Corb Lund and the Sadies, playing festivals across North America, Europe
and Australia and scoring the 2010 film Grown-Up Movie Star (for which
they earned a Gemini nomination for Best Original Song), the band now
also has a global presence. With Days Into Years they will bring their
music, and of one of the greatest Canadian stories, to the world.
Elliott BROOD are Casey Laforet (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
pedals, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, lap steel,vocals) Mark Sasso
(banjo, guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Stephen Pitkin (percussion,
drums, piano, vocals).
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