Hauntario Hits Hard
posted October 1, 2009 by admin
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Some have said that art must evoke a response. While being a far cry from an art-rock band, The Wheat Pool have been generating plenty of response with the build-up to their sophmore release on Shameless, “Hauntario”.
”Hauntario is a powerful record full of great fully realized songs, and to my mind yearning and hurting haven’t sounded this epic or strangely appealing in ages.” No Depression
The Wheat Pool aren’t staking themselves as a ‘clever’ bunch of songwriters. It is no-nonsense delivery, start to finish, an intense and committed collaboration, which immediately dismisses the kitsch from a play on words such as “Hauntario.” The title is an honest blend of two over-powering themes in the lives of the band and their songs; a haunting quality in the songs carried over from track to track, alongside a collision of nods to Ontario, and the tensions that such a nod stir up.
The irony is something we as humans find strangely satisfying, and the transparency of a band so deeply rooted in western Canada is delicious. This record is darker, full of spaces in the arrangements to let the words settle, and trades the driving assault of its predecessor “Township” for more mature, relentless emotion. If you don’t feel it, you don’t get it.
”… the type of record that somehow hits you in the stomach, the mouth and the heart all at the same time_” _Herohill
Hauntario goes public October 6. Check it on iTunes and all your other favorite online retailers.
The band is kicking it off with a hometown show Oct.3 at The Pawn Shop in Edmonton.