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The Trews – The Pearl (More Than Everything)
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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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Drummah
GOOOOD MUUUSSSIIIIICCCC
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joaotsantos
The Canadian Rock League (season 2) will start in the next week. You can vote in this band here Canadian Rock League Every week have a new voting! Greetings
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Emmalene1987
I love The Trews!
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fortric
new album - awesome :)
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Dr_LOVEcat
la la la))))!
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prizefyter
!!! Vancouver April 26th !!!
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fortric
Hope & Ruin :)
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demoncleaner77
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
They'v got amazing songs :>> You're so Sober :)))))))))))))))))))
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ilovestuffjess
i like their new song:P Highway of Heroes.
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inuyasha16
Every Inambition!
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8Otany8
"Den Of Thieves" - fantastic album!
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prizefyter
These guys are fuck-TASTIC!
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fortric
Sing your heart out :)
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The-UnCool
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
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
LOL yeah trew fax, Fesnak.
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fesnak
trews are fucking terrible. most blatant sam roberts rip off ever. fuck the trews
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fortric
new single - is amazing :)
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