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Album Review: 54-40

YES TO EVERYTHING
New 54-40 a mixed bag
By -- Ottawa Sun



54-40
YES TO EVERYTHING
(MapleMusic)

It has to be confusing for a veteran Canadian band.

A dozen or so albums cut from the same cloth; countless road trips across the country; radio "hits" that somehow never translate into sales. It is surely a blur.

And it helps to explain why Vancouver's 54-40 accidentally kick off their latest album with a song built upon the riff from Sloan's Money City Maniacs.

Indeed, it takes the veteran quartet a few tracks to remember how to be 54-40. Once they do, of course, all is forgiven. And we can certainly count on hearing vintage 54-40 rockers like Blue Plate Special and Calling You Out on the airwaves this summer.

Other highlights include a fine acoustic country-rock song called On the Road Home that appropriately wraps things up and reminds us -- in case Neil Osborne's distinctive world-weary voice had not up to that point -- that we are listening to a band we have too often taken for granted and that still has an ace or two up its collective sleeve.

And it's not Sloan.

Track Listing:

1. Easy To Love
2. Can't Get Enough
3. Golden Sun
4. Stop Line
5. This Is Here
6. This Is Now
7. All About Love
8. Blue Plate Special
9. Beautiful Self
10. Calling You Out
11. Another Kiss
12. On The Road Home


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