Dearly Beloved - Walker Park CDGiven that the band was born as an affirmation of life energy and an outlet for raw emotional expression, maybe its inevitable that Toronto rockers Dearly Beloved would answer the weird silence of global pandemic with a roar. The relentless noisemakers emerge from two years of lockdown with the vivid, bracing Walker Park. The bands self described barrage rock is both a clever bit of wordplay and a pithy statement of intent rooted in bedrock truth. For

Higgins’ sinuous virtuoso bass lines

to name just a few

music built for driving with your stereo cranked

beefy horns and Jesus Lizard-like rhythmic precision

some of whom are barely into adulthood

Electric Sounds is a deceptively diverse affair

Band members (Matt Durrant

Performed live in front of an intimate audience at McMaster University’s LIVELab with select members of the NAO and special guest John-Angus MacDonald of The Trews

"Despite having been preemptively lumped in with a whole mess of nu-garage outfits

Kittens "Jackknife"

Labour Day

made in Vietnam