The Wooden Sky don't want to Come Home
Chris Illich
Issue date: 11/10/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
Still running off of the fumes from their month-long North American tour with Elliott Brood, Toronto's The Wooden Sky are planning on hitting the road again, bringing the exceptional folk-rock songs from their sophomore album, If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone, to places across Ontario, with a stop in at St. Catharines' Merchant Ale House on Nov. 15.
The Wooden Sky's Gavin Gardiner explained that the group formed together in stages over the last couple of years. Their first album, When Lost At Sea, was actually released under the moniker Friday Morning's Regret, and then in 2007, the band decided to change their name to The Wooden Sky.
With their latest album - a collection of 13 lush, eloquent songs - Gardiner revealed that the process of working on the writing and recording of the album was unquestionably one of his most rewarding experiences of the past year.
"We rented a cottage in northern Ontario, just a couple hours north of Toronto. The four of us just went up there and took all the beds and put them over the windows and spent a week just hanging out, playing music, and workshopping our songs. It was really special," said Gardiner.
"Then when we actually took those songs and made the record, it was pretty fantastic. It was really exciting to be in Montreal and to see everyone really focused and working so hard."
The album, which was released on Aug. 25 through Ontario's BlackBox Recordings, was recorded at Montreal's famed Hotel2Tango with producer and engineer Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, The Dears). The album has a distinctly Canadian sound to it, even though it borrows influences from both Americana and indie-rock alike.
Prior to the release of If I Don't Come Home, the band took their van on the road for their "Bedrooms and Backstreets" tour, which was video documented for their Myspace page. Then, in October, they left for a month with Elliott Brood, which took them across Canada and into the United States for two weeks, where Gardiner ultimately found himself staying in a hospital in Portland.
The Wooden Sky's Gavin Gardiner explained that the group formed together in stages over the last couple of years. Their first album, When Lost At Sea, was actually released under the moniker Friday Morning's Regret, and then in 2007, the band decided to change their name to The Wooden Sky.
With their latest album - a collection of 13 lush, eloquent songs - Gardiner revealed that the process of working on the writing and recording of the album was unquestionably one of his most rewarding experiences of the past year.
"We rented a cottage in northern Ontario, just a couple hours north of Toronto. The four of us just went up there and took all the beds and put them over the windows and spent a week just hanging out, playing music, and workshopping our songs. It was really special," said Gardiner.
"Then when we actually took those songs and made the record, it was pretty fantastic. It was really exciting to be in Montreal and to see everyone really focused and working so hard."
The album, which was released on Aug. 25 through Ontario's BlackBox Recordings, was recorded at Montreal's famed Hotel2Tango with producer and engineer Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, The Dears). The album has a distinctly Canadian sound to it, even though it borrows influences from both Americana and indie-rock alike.
Prior to the release of If I Don't Come Home, the band took their van on the road for their "Bedrooms and Backstreets" tour, which was video documented for their Myspace page. Then, in October, they left for a month with Elliott Brood, which took them across Canada and into the United States for two weeks, where Gardiner ultimately found himself staying in a hospital in Portland.
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