Alien8 Recording
2003
Broken Spirit, I Will Mend Your Wings
About This Album
One thing ends, another begins. From the ashes of Canada's Tricky Woo, former members Andrew Dickson and Phil Burns have created the year's most exciting new rock monolith with Soft Canyon. Broken Spirit, I Will Mend Your Wings is the debut album by one of the most holistically rocked-out bands to come from Canada's interior in over a decade.

Soft Canyon is an amalgam of 1970s rock excess à la the original Amboy Dukes, Blue Cheer, Pink Floyd's majestic Atom Heart Mother, with lots of major chords; big, throbbing choruses; tripped-out psychedelic textures housed firmly in muddy guitar power chords; the aesthetic textures of Jack Nitzsche; great songs with floppy lyrics à la Van Dyke Parks on a muscular dose of acid; great artwork; riffs and hooks worthy of Arthur Lee's Love; and enough emotional transference to ignite even the most po' faced emo kid into a flurry of regal burning tears and bliss. This is rock music that is timeless, aesthetically beautiful, texturally intoxicating, and sonically damaging to any psyche that feels complacency is a blessing. First there's the monstrously ringing guitars on "For You," the opening track. The guitars usher in harmony vocals at the same level as the lead singer's that echo the soul of Buffalo Springfield with teeth and a bridge so choice and so gorgeous that weeping is not out of the question.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,4,5 and 6)

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