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• Artist: The Clumsy Lovers
• Album: After The Flood
• Label: Nettwerk
• Year of Release: 2004
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-03-24

The Clumsy Lovers have been around for a few years with an evolving line-up. They eventually landed a line-up of Jason Homey, Chris Jonat, Andrea Lewis, Gord Roberts, and Trevor Rogers, most of who are multi-instrumentalists. Once solidified they finally got their sound together and wanted a few more people to get the opportunity to hear After The Flood. That's where Nettwerk records comes in who subsequently offered them a recording contract. Enter After The Flood. This is a brilliant folk album. Or you might even call it rock. Who knows. It's great music anyway. Fiddles, mandolins, and banjos are some of the more prominent instruments you will hear on After The Flood. Traditional? Well, not really because Chris Jonat's songwriting leads a little more towards pop/rock territory than you would expect. It's the instruments and the arrangements that pull them back into the folk territory. Trevor Rogers vocals are a perfect match for what The Clumsy Lovers do. He's got a little bit of a twang (quite a bit for a BC boy) that makes the band sound like they would be at home in Texas. The album production is very suited. It was done by John Webster who has just recently turned to producing. Although this music will undoubtedly end up in the folk section of the music stores, they could follow suit with fellow folk-rock Canadians Great Big Sea and make it on the charts. "Waterbound" and "Mercy" are two tracks to watch out for.

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