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By the beginning of 2010, the Trews were feeling a little uncertain.
The band had been on an upwardly mobile streak since “Not Ready to Go” first came pumping out of Canadian radio back in 2003. They wasted no time piling success on top of success, watching their stature grow with multiple hit singles and an incomparable live show, courting exhaustion while they fanned out across the world and carved an eccentric and stubborn path through an industry demanding that they always “compete.”
The tensions were audible on 2008’s No Time for Later. The band’s third album was its most accomplished and satisfying. But as a formal exercise in broadening their songwriting chops while making a hermetically perfect studio recording – all while shoveling enough hits into the mouth of the beast – it emerged uptight and dark, maybe even a little claustrophobic. Not insignificantly, the second single was called “Paranoid Freak”.
As the first leg of touring wrapped up on their sidelong 2009 Acoustic – Friends & Total Strangers retrospective, for the first time in years the Trews found themselves facing time off and a blank canvas. As Colin MacDonald bluntly puts it, “We didn’t really know what to do.” The rest of the tour was months away. The band had forward momentum but nowhere to go.
Enter Gord Sinclair. The Tragically Hip bassist surfaced amidst this rare period of suspended animation and offered the Trews a little shelter at the Hip’s fabled Bathouse Recording Studio. He said they could cool their jets, make some demos.
The band had been on an upwardly mobile streak since “Not Ready to Go” first came pumping out of Canadian radio back in 2003. They wasted no time piling success on top of success, watching their stature grow with multiple hit singles and an incomparable live show, courting exhaustion while they fanned out across the world and carved an eccentric and stubborn path through an industry demanding that they always “compete.”
The tensions were audible on 2008’s No Time for Later. The band’s third album was its most accomplished and satisfying. But as a formal exercise in broadening their songwriting chops while making a hermetically perfect studio recording – all while shoveling enough hits into the mouth of the beast – it emerged uptight and dark, maybe even a little claustrophobic. Not insignificantly, the second single was called “Paranoid Freak”.
As the first leg of touring wrapped up on their sidelong 2009 Acoustic – Friends & Total Strangers retrospective, for the first time in years the Trews found themselves facing time off and a blank canvas. As Colin MacDonald bluntly puts it, “We didn’t really know what to do.” The rest of the tour was months away. The band had forward momentum but nowhere to go.
Enter Gord Sinclair. The Tragically Hip bassist surfaced amidst this rare period of suspended animation and offered the Trews a little shelter at the Hip’s fabled Bathouse Recording Studio. He said they could cool their jets, make some demos.
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No Time For Later
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Den of Thieves
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House of Ill Fame
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Hope & Ruin
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Emmalene1987 wrote:
I love The Trews!
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soulmate_of_me wrote:
great band!
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fortric wrote:
new album - awesome :)
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Dr_LOVEcat wrote:
la la la))))!
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prizefyter wrote:
!!! Vancouver April 26th !!!
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fortric wrote:
Hope & Ruin :)
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demoncleaner77 wrote:
I once heard a goat getting raped by a farmer and it sounded better than this band. The only thing worse is Our Lady Peace.
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qwerty_34 wrote:
They'v got amazing songs :>> You're so Sober :)))))))))))))))))))
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ilovestuffjess wrote:
i like their new song:P Highway of Heroes.
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inuyasha16 wrote:
Every Inambition!
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8Otany8 wrote:
"Den Of Thieves" - fantastic album!
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prizefyter wrote:
These guys are fuck-TASTIC!
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fortric wrote:
Sing your heart out :)
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The-UnCool wrote:
Take a look at our post on The Trews and Ace Frehley live show in Chicago. http://www.the-uncool.com/theunrecorded-livemusic/the-trews-and-ace-frehley Kind of a funny show. Love to know what you think.
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GAS0LINE wrote:
i guess they sound like sam roberts a little bit if you only listen to a couple of their singles...i used to think they were pretty generic. but give their whole albums a shot! they're more interesting then you would think, now i absolutely love them hahah
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seanconn wrote:
LOL yeah trew fax, Fesnak.
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fesnak wrote:
trews are fucking terrible. most blatant sam roberts rip off ever. fuck the trews
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fortric wrote:
new single - is amazing :)
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nemesis414 wrote:
Inward eye **
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nemesis414 wrote:
inward actually opened for the trews at a show i saw them at in Wasaga Beach Ontario Canada kick ass show btw!
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The Trews
Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, Canada
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CJAY 92 presents The Trews
Flames Central, Calgary, Canada
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- Mar 17 The Big Night Out Tour The Oak, Winnipeg, Canada
News
The Trews perform on Eleven O’Clock Rock
28 Nov 2011 | from www.thetrewsmusic.com
The Trews performed Live on Eleven O’Clock Rock and it’s now
available streaming in their archive HERE
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Highway of Heroes
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Nov 26th Show – Venue Change
10 Nov 2011 | from www.thetrewsmusic.com
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