The fourth album of this fine Toronto-area group, the brainchild of
Jose Contreras
, is a blueprint for how to make effective, feel-good
rock & roll
. Despite the fact music and lyrical content could be deemed to be eco-friendly at times, it still manages to take all the aspects of
classic rock
and fuse them into an instantly lovable whole. One of the highlights is
"Hugger of Trees,"
a keyboard- and percussion-led song in the same vein as
the Who
in their heyday. The raunchy
rock
of
"Supernatural"
or the infectious riffs in
"Stella Heart Ocean"
engulf the senses and are unrelenting in their hum-ability. If there is any fault with the album, it could be
"Kick This Bummer,"
which seems to stagnate in the middle and travels into a
Neil Young
culmination. Add to this the
ballad
-like songs which bookend the album and you find yourself with a trendless, timeless
and
pop
album. ~ Jason MacNeil