Bahamas - Pink Strat

Bahamas - Lo-fi, mostly acoustic affair from Toronto's Afie (AY-fee) Jurvanen, Feist's touring guitarist, received a June nomination up north last year for Best Roots & Traditional Album...a more densely produced followup has been completed for release later this year // Release: Pink Strat (May 17, Brushfire) // Quote: "...when we set up the recording we subscribed to those ways of taking the first or second run through of a song – because that’s when people are really listening. In my experience, tinkering with things or redoing a solo or vocals rarely ends up solving anything. It’s either there or it isn’t.” // Sounds like: lean and low-keyed, Strat is blessed with Jurvanen's often dark, wry lyrical mood and exceptional playing...far from lazy -- this is loose, limber and laid back // What we like: the mostly three-minute-and-under mentality to the dozen songs, yielding sharply etched vignettes that touch blues, alt-country, folk and "Canadi-ana"...the cover of Wreckless Eric's 70's "pub punk" classic "Whole Wide World" -- with the line "maybe she's in the Bahamas" (hmm) -- has a lax shamble...

Bahamas - "Already Yours" (from the album Pink Strat)

Bahamas - "Hockey Teeth" (from the album Pink Strat)