| SAM ROBERTS
Chemical City
Universal Music Canada
· Sam Roberts quite possibly serves as Quebec’s redeemer from their previous musical export, Celine Dion.
The three-year term since Sam Roberts’s previous release, We Were Born in a Flame, was a long and excruciating wait for fans. Putting up with Simple Plan and Nickelback as international ambassadors for the Canadian music scene is not easy. Alas, the drought is over. Sam Roberts’s Chemical City is comprised of the same non-stop rockin’ as his first disc.
After Roberts snatched the 2004 Juno awards for best album, best rock album and artist of the year, fans expected nothing less from this 2006 release. The disc is exceptional. Listeners might as well forget the skip button on their players, Chemical City bears only the best. Sam Roberts experiments with his own breed of rock, mixing the psychedelic sounds of the ’70s and the soothing songwriting found in dive bars across the country. The band is currently touring and will make a stop in Calgary’s MacEwan Hall on May 19. Roberts’s original sound never grows tedious and will likely be influential in Canada’s future exports.
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