Release Date: 25 September 2015
Label: Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd. / Xtra Mile Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060091557802
Genres: Rock Alternative
Description
Hope is made of steel is the third full-length album from Northcote, the moniker of Canadian songwriter Matt Goud - his most pronounced and striking album to date.
Following a year bulging with gigs - with over 160 performances in 2014/2015 - as well as a tour history that includes playing alongside The Gaslight Anthem on their North American tour, the ever-present Chuck Ragan in Europe, Dave Hause and Twin Forks, the album is enriched with live experience.
Coursing with electric guitars, there is a definite rock beast pumping inside the 10 track record. As Matt says "with this record it is a priority for me to bring a more dynamic show on the road".
Recorded while moving between cities, 3000 miles apart, the album is surging with the energy of movement and the storytelling attached to travel. 'Small Town Dreams' is the best example, as it combines the stirring mood of an enveloping wall of sound with all the hopes and dreams of the two characters in the song who wish someday to make it to the big city.
'Leaving Wyoming' deals with moving on too, taking more of a traditional Northcote approach - the warm, nostalgic feel, the gentile electric chimes, the soaring reverbed vocals - while 'Bitter End' captures that Springsteen-like swagger the young Canadian has picked up from tours, and united it with his own way around an adrenal rush of a chorus.
Tracklisting
Frank Turner
Frank Turner & Jon Snodgrass
SKINNY LISTER
Mull Historical Society
REUBEN
PET NEEDS
The Sleeping Souls
Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun
Northcote
