2006 release from Canada`s classic rock-cum-power pop band who bring a diverse plate of influences home to feast on the music fans` home, from The Posies to The Shazam, to The Churchills and Sloan. This is a pop album that is not afraid to break out in arene-rock pretentions and turn the volume all the way up - and they can pull this off because they invoke breezy melodies and hooks with high-glossed production sheen(but not too much) and and articulate fully-melted earshot of guitar work. The songs carry memorable melodies atop energetic riffs and driving rhythms, it`s what all good rock
`n pop bands should do, but wimp out. Co-produced by ex-Grapes Of
Wrath frontman Kevin Kane (The Salteens, Zumpano) & singer/hack-axeman Vic Wayne, this Vancouver based band know their way around slippery `n smooth buzzin` rock riffs that remind one of Ariel Bender in Mott The Hoople one moment and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick(circa "Heaven Tonight") the next moment. On Hundred-Bullet-Proof, the boys continue to embrace decadent 70s Americana while maintaining their unabashed love of British power-pop. This time, however, the heavy is heavier, the moody, moodier and the psychedelic, well, psychedelicer! (yeah, yeah we know thats not a real word but its fun to say and, what is this anyway, an album promo or Scrabble?!?) Very Highly Recommended!
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