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CANADA is an indie rock, folk pop, alt-country, soothing, calm, both joyous and heartbreaking, infectious band of friends. It is a seven-piece group with a sound that is somewhat difficult to pin down. Plenty of instruments, multiple vocalists, etc; they’re a pretty unique band.

Toting truckloads of song-writing smarts and multi-instrumental savvy, their debut album, “This Cursed House,” encapsulates the whine of a porch swing, the ring of a dinner bell, and the buzzing of fireflies far, far away. The album features feel-good, indie-type music that brings to mind almost a Page France type of aura. The tracks sweep and twinkle with pretty accordion flourishes, somber cello hums, and wistfully fragile vocalization. Words like lovely, delicate, used, bookstore, tea, nerd, old-soul, antique, and candlelit come to mind. The album even uses the typewriter as an instrument.

If you’re looking for a theme song, check out a few selections from “This Cursed House,” it might be just what you’re looking for.

Band Talk

Canada Group Portrait
Steven
Joseph
Saul
Aaron
Amy
Ryan
Kaylan

CANADA is a live rock and roll band of seven friends that put out albums of songs that they write and perform together. It is a seven piece musical collective hailing from the Ann Arbor area of Michigan. CANADA was conceived in late 2004, when a group of mild-mannered acquaintances, who all happened to play various musical machines, gathered together in a basement full of rain and chandeliers and began writing. Shortly after, they convened on a farm just outside of Ann Arbor and crafted their songs from the air and from the earth. From these gatherings came the beginnings to what would lead up to their new album, “This Cursed House.”

“This Cursed House” is the debut album. Recorded in the dark of winter, on a sound board originally built and used in the early 80’s to mix portions of the 2nd & 3rd installments of the Star Wars trilogy, the music comes as an unexpectedly warm record of art-folk arrangements featuring dual cellists, melodica, shout and response vocals, glockenspiel, and rhodes piano.

CANADA has just wrapped up a tour with Page France, as well as a short tour with their dear friends Saturday Looks Good to Me. This band has fast become the answer to the stuffy misaligned garage scene that has largely monopolized Detroit’s weary image in the minds of the masses. This is what music from the mitten is about.

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