“COLDER STREAMS is, by far, the best record that has ever been made by anyone. Ever.” So begins a tongue-in-cheek text by The Sadies singer and guitarist Dallas Good about the Canadians’ eleventh studio effort. Tragically, Good is now dead, having passed away in February of a late-diagnosed heart condition. The album will be released anyway. And Good’s swaggering announcement isn’t too far off the mark: COLDER STREAMS, produced by Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), is a compelling example of the former quartet’s – deeply North American – sound cosmos, in which the garage-psychedelic melodious bliss of the Paisley underground sits side by side with Gothic Americana, surf and blues rides.
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The Sadies let dense walls of guitars proliferate, sway across the prairie with banjo and mandolin, ensnare with lovely harmonies and irresistible hooks. A dark fever dream of jangle, twang and reverb that finds the sweet spot between loveliness and dirt and gets a deservedly majestic closing credits with the Morricone-worthy final instrumental “End Credits”. “Rise! Rise! Up from the ashes and come back to your loved ones / We miss you so much right now,” Dallas Good sings on the song “Message To Belial.” How right he is.
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