Music – Chicago
Canada’s THE TREWS are touring behind \"Hope & Ruin,\" their fourth full-length studio album.
\"Hope & Ruin\" is a level-raising evolution for the Toronto-based rock band with two gold records, 12 top-10 singles and 900-plus concerts logged. Recorded live-off-the-floor, they captured lightning in a bottle, resulting in a sound that is raw, electric and igniting.
Earlier this summer, NY Press was blown away by a rare NYC appearance and American Songwriter hosted an acoustic session by the guys in their Nashville offices. Twangville calls \"Hope & Ruin,\" “A collection of rock anthems filled with blaring electric guitars and tight harmonies” and Metal Odyssey named Hope & Ruin the #1 Rock Album of 2011, exclaiming, \"The Trews just don’t bang-it-out on this album, they play the song and take you on an escalator of Rock.\"
the Trews swing low and loose on \"Hope and Ruin,\" which Sinclair unexpectedly found himself co-producing with John-Angus. Their customary wall-of-guitar is there on tracks like the explosive and somewhat insane “People of the Deer” – albeit bigger and more visceral than ever – and “The World I Know” puts a perverse twist on the kind of Aerosmith redux the band accomplishes in its sleep. “I’ll Find Someone Who Will” is their patented classic-rock, power-pop hybrid, and naturally more fun than a sugar rush after a blast of nitrous.