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Review – “Mended With Gold” – Rural Alberta Advantage

Grayowl Point

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“Maybe that’s why the second half of the album seems to come into its own after embracing that pivotal moment. “Can you love/when your heart turns to dust?” is the new kind of anxiety they’ve found on “45/33.” It’s here, finally, that Banwatt marches on aggressively, capturing fear, panic and pain with an intensity that feels new to the RAA. Things only become more frantic on “All We’ve Ever Known” as Edenloff and Cole pick up on this new, ominous energy while staccato “Vulcan, AB” feels like it should be a nod to their older work given that title, but the similar names only draw attention to the slow divide that’s being created between past and present, and even the first and second halves of the new album.”

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