It has been 5 years since The Toronto trio The Rural Alberta Advantage has released anything new.
The band just released two new songs called CANDU and AB Bridge.
A hard indie folk rock tune to tide us for what to expect for them in 2022.
About the track:
“CANDU” is a rustic anthemic reply to a once-booming Northern settlement that was abruptly forgotten and the band’s lament on the common connections that emerge when you’ve unknowingly tied your hopes to a sinking ship.
My mom’s uncle worked up in Uranium City, Saskatchewan in the late 70s/early 80s, when it was a small but very active mining settlement,” notes Nils.
“We went to visit and it was the first time I was ever on a plane was as a young kid then, I’m not sure if the pictures in my mind now are real or just something from a dream. Candu was the local high school and only open for a couple of years while the town was booming; it was abandoned like everything else after the mines abruptly closed in the early 80s leaving most families stranded without work, and now sits completely vandalized. Growing up in a mining town myself, it’s hard not to think about who or what would have remained for me if the jobs all suddenly dried up, and where my friends and I would have ended up.”
“When Nils said he was writing a song called ‘CANDU’ about Uranium City, it made me think of my Dad.” Paul continues.
“He spent decades working as an engineer helping design the CANDU nuclear reactors.
I remember the uranium fuel rod bundle display that was at my dad’s work. What happened to the people in Uranium City is really tragic, but I didn’t know about it until Nils wrote these lyrics. So the song also makes me think about all the different and hidden ways people across Canada are connected.”
CANDU / AB Bride gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
The Rural Alberta Advantage – CANDU / AB Bride [Listen]
