The Rural Alberta Advantage have returned with their first batch of new tunes since releasing 2017's The Wild. Today, they're previewing their new era with a double-helping of singles, "CANDU" and "AB Bride."
As the first recordings since the return of core band member Amy Cole, the two new songs mark the start of an "ongoing series of new songs and EPs" to be released over the coming year for Paper Bag Records.
In a statement, bandleader Nils Edenloff said of new single "CANDU":
My mom's uncle worked up in Uranium City, Saskatchewan in the late '70s/early '80s, when it was a small but very active mining settlement. We went to visit and it was the first time I was ever on a plane — as a young kid then, I'm not sure if the pictures in my mind now are real or just something from a dream.
Candu was the local high school and only open for a couple of years while the town was booming; it was abandoned like everything else after the mines abruptly closed in the early '80s leaving most families stranded without work, and now sits completely vandalized.
Growing up in a mining town myself, it's hard not to think about who or what would have remained for me if the jobs all suddenly dried up, and where my friends and I would have ended up.
In a release, the band also teased forthcoming tour plans in support of their mysterious new projects. Until we hear more, you can listen to their new tracks below.
As the first recordings since the return of core band member Amy Cole, the two new songs mark the start of an "ongoing series of new songs and EPs" to be released over the coming year for Paper Bag Records.
In a statement, bandleader Nils Edenloff said of new single "CANDU":
My mom's uncle worked up in Uranium City, Saskatchewan in the late '70s/early '80s, when it was a small but very active mining settlement. We went to visit and it was the first time I was ever on a plane — as a young kid then, I'm not sure if the pictures in my mind now are real or just something from a dream.
Candu was the local high school and only open for a couple of years while the town was booming; it was abandoned like everything else after the mines abruptly closed in the early '80s leaving most families stranded without work, and now sits completely vandalized.
Growing up in a mining town myself, it's hard not to think about who or what would have remained for me if the jobs all suddenly dried up, and where my friends and I would have ended up.
In a release, the band also teased forthcoming tour plans in support of their mysterious new projects. Until we hear more, you can listen to their new tracks below.
