Biography
*** Just announced ***
"HAUNTARIO" to be released October 6/2009. Western Canada and Ontario tours announced.
All other information and material for The Wheat Pool is available on official website: http://thewheatpool.com
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"One of Canada's Best New Bands" - Grant Lawrence, CBC Radio 3
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For a band frequently described as driving music, collisions would be something to steer clear of. However, the formula for a new record seemed ironically hidden inside the collision of many opposing forces.
Hauntario is the sophomore recording by this western Canadian indie-alt-country band, an evolved collection of songs brimming with the layered tensions of their lives, played out between albums.
The record itself was named for two colliding concepts that continued to bubble to the surface. Robb Angus tells us "From the very beginning, the first songs possessed a haunting quality, dark subject matter and melodies that wouldn't get out of our heads." Guitarist Glen Erickson adds, "Ontario wouldn't go away, as a lyric, as a destination, or as the home base in our industry. For a western band it remains a necessary evil, a difficult girlfriend to win over, yet on a different level it possessed so much of what we love about our country." Both ideas worked, and the concept crystallized on a recent eastern tour, while the album was being mixed.
Despite entertaining numerous production options, Hauntario was made with the same production team that helped TWP achieve "Township", their 2007 debut, which carved an immediate niche with fans and radio for its unique song-writing and amped-up canadiana. (Earshot top50, CBC Radio 3 top10)
Hauntario continues where "Township" left off, with noticeable alternations between the brothers' songs, dynamic exchanges between swells and whispers, rock and roots. The familiar influences remain, while more obvious impressions made by current indie flavours have put their mark on the new songs. Pedal steel, organ and piano continue to wash around the band's foundational guitar-driven delivery, with the signature blend of vocals taking a greater share of the spotlight.
The Wheat Pool will be on the road across Canada throughout the fall, promoting Hauntario, which reaches the public October 6/09.
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"Each Wheat Pool performance brings out a larger crowd and solidifies them as one of Western Canada's top artists, set to make an impact in the Western Canadian alt.country, roots music scene."
Brent Oliver, Foundation Concerts (www.foundationconcerts.com)
"Township is a melancholy, reflective collection of romantic songs steeped in Western Canadian culture. Also, it rocks."
VUE Weekly (September 26, 2007) www.vueweekly.com
"Township boasts an addictive mix of sincere, heartbreaking melodies and rock enthusiasm ...
Accessible, organic and marbled with loneliness and desolation."
Exclaim! Magazine (October, 2007) www.exclaim.ca
** Top 10: R3-30 (CBC Radio 3)
** Top 50: Earshot (National College/Indie Chart)
Instrumentation
Robb Angus - lead vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica
Mike Angus - lead vocals, bass, guitar
Glen Erickson - lead guitar, vocals, harmonica
Steph Dagenais - drums
Discography
HAUNTARIO
(October 6/09)
TOWNSHIP
(September 11/07)
"Geographic Centre of Canada" (rock radio single)
"Evergreen" (rock/pop radio single)
"Peniel, SK" (roots radio single)
Links
| http://www.thewheatpool.com |
| The Wheat Pool MySpace |