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The release of Sproll’s initial offering, Kelly’s Hill, in 2003 generated more than a little interest in this Moncton, NB act.

Soft Science, released two years later, confirmed initial predictions that this New Brunswick power pop quartet just might have a future. Turn On Your Radio, released in January, removes any doubt this band is going somewhere. The only question is just how far will this album take them.

If it gets the kind of exposure it deserves, national chart action for Turn On Your Radio and possibly some international attention is not at all outside the realm of possibilities.

“Radio,” the album’s first single, generated a big buzz and no doubt factored into the decision by regional CBC offering Atlantic Airwaves to donate an entire hour to the album the month of its release.

Recorded at Signal to Noise and Sunnyside Studios in Toronto, the new record was produced and engineered by Laurence Currie, the same producer who helmed Soft Science.

Currie appears to have a certain affinity for East Coast acts, having already worked on records by two very successful acts from Atlantic Canada, Sloan, and Wintersleep, who just earned a Juno for New Group of the Year.

Sproll spent more than a year writing and recording this record, a major commitment of time that required them to scale down the number of live shows they undertook in order to focus their sights on the project at hand. It was the right move.

This record is a sonic gem – bright, brash and bold, with a big guitar sound that evokes comparisons to bands like U2, Oasis, and Travis.

Keyboards are used much more effectively on this album as well.

Vocalist Corey Hachey, whose delivery was most certainly influenced by the sounds of the aforementioned bands, save possibly for Big Country, which is a little before his time, has a major league voice and the band’s vocal harmonies are solid.

There are 11 brand new songs on Turn On Your Radio, just over half of which were co-written by the band. The five remaining tracks were collaborative efforts involving the band and friend Mike Goyette who also sat in on keyboards for three songs.

Don’t be surprised to hear some of this music make its way to film and TV.

Material from Soft Science found its way to the CTV hit series Whistler and onto several compilation albums including the Atlantic Film Festival’s Music and Image Take IV.

This album could very well be a career maker for the band.

 

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