Bossanova 'Hey Sugar' album

Finally, it's safe to be Canadian. Cool, even. Heck, we've even heard rumours of bands pretending to be from the Great White North--shameless musicians who don toques and Mac jackets in an attempt to infiltrate the indie-rock scene with some readymade credibility, the kind that comes from sharing a prime minister and a passion for hockey with bands like Black Mountain, Arcade Fire, the New Pornographers and Loverboy (trust us--they're so uncool they're cool).

Anyway, Bossanova isn't faking it--they really are from Canada, though I'm not sure how they feel about hockey or red leather pants. They're from Vancouver, to be exact, a land of ocean, mountains, and home to two of the above named bands. In fact, members of Black Mountain and the New Pornographers are responsible for the drums on the debut Bossanova disc, Hey, Sugar.

But don't let the star turns throw you off--this is perfectionist tinkerer Chris Storrow's odyssey. Over seven years in the making, Hey, Sugar is Chris's vision of a perfect cocktail party, a free-for-all where Brian Wilson gossips with Burt Bacharach, Sergio Mendes mixes a Zombie for Stevie Wonder, and members of Stereolab and New Order play DJ. Like all great pop records, Hey, Sugar's heart lies not in any one era but in several all at once, tuning into all the sounds radio has unashamedly used to seduce untold numbers of lovestruck boys and girls since the British Invasion. You know the wavelength Chris is on immediately-it's in the way opener "In the Immortal Words of You" builds from swooning whisper to earth-shaking anthem, in the shiver-inducing falsetto chorus of "I'll Leave of My Heart", and in the space-age tropicalia of "Rare Brazil." In the end it doesn't matter what country Bossanova is from, because Hey, Sugar hits the universal sweet spot every time.

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Bossanova - Hey Sugar