New Canadian Music I:The Rural Alberta Advantage

Creating something of a stir here in Canada at the moment are TRAA. A three-piece from Alberta, they fall into the indie/alt country category. This is how they describe themselves.........

The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.

Going on the description alone makes me think of a Canadian Go-Betweens. Which would be no bad thing. They've just been signed up to Saddle Creek and their debut album 'Hometowns' was released on July 7th.

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