SAM ROBERTS BAND ANNOUNCE LATEST ALBUM ALL OF US. THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SONGWRITER SAM ROBERTS AND HIS BANDMATES HAVE BEEN BUSY CRAFTING THEIR SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM IN AND AROUND THEIR HOME TOWN OF MONTREAL. THE NINE NEW SONGS THAT MAKE UP ALL OF US ARE SET TO TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY TOWARDS THE 21ST YEAR OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

Sam Roberts Band has been unleashing new music all summer and today the band are officially announcing their latest album All Of Us,due out October 16th on Secret Weapon / Known Accomplice.

All Of Us arrives in the middle of a global pandemic. The album’s opener, “Wolf Tracks” immediately dumps us in the Covidian wilderness, socially distanced from the pack, scattered and alone. Where does the path lead? To a version of the abyss that holds promise? This twilight-set album is not radically optimistic so much as that it refuses to fall into despair. Throughout this heartbreaking journey, SRB moves emphatically towards the 21st year of the 21st century, where life isn’t just passing us by, it’s coming at us with a chainsaw and an eviction notice. In this swirl of malevolence, salvation arrives not in the narrow kinship of the wolf pack, but in a much larger program of solidarity. The clue is in the album’s title: All Of Us.

The band’s first single from the album “Ascension”, a real stomper, slams like a fist of a mission statement. In August the band released their newest hit “I LIke The Way You Talk About The Future”, an infectious, thick groove with trippy vibes and inspired lyrics.  “I Like The Way You Talk About The Future” is a head-nodding, instantaneously catchy track, fitting for the times we’re living in.

If you find yourself here, you already know that since 2002, Sam Roberts Band have dominated the airwaves, with hits like “Brother Down” and “Don’t Walk Away Eileen” from their debut album We Were Born In A Flame, Bridge to Nowhere from Chemical City, and “We’re All In This Together” from Lo-Fantasy, and have been selling out shows and sharing the stage with legendary bands like AC/DC and The Rolling Stones. Delivering their strongest album yet, All Of Us is an undeniably compelling body of work from a band whose future continues to unfold. Come along…

Full track listing:

1. Wolf Tracks
2. War Chest
3. Ascension
4. Spellbound
5. Take Me Away
6. I Like the Way You Talk About the Future
7. Ghost Town
8. All Of Us
9. Youth

SAM ROBERTS ANNOUNCES ‘2018 DELUXE EDITION OF WE WERE BORN IN A FLAME’ IN HONOUR OF ITS 15-YEAR ANNIVERSARY. INCLUDES ORIGINAL DEMOS AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS. ALBUM PRE-ORDER STARTS AUGUST 31, DUE OUT ON OCTOBER 5.

Celebrated singer-songwriter Sam Roberts announced the deluxe reissue of the Juno Award-winning debut album We Were Born In A Flame, set for release on October 5th worldwide. The 2018 edition marks fifteen years since the album was first released in 2003 and includes original demos and previously unheard songs with an entire extra disc added for both CD and vinyl editions remastered by one of Canada’s most distinguished sound engineer’s, João Carvalho.

We Were Born In A Flame officially launched the band onto the global music scene, impressively debuting at #2 on Soundscan and being certified double platinum in Canada. The 2018 release includes all tracks from the band’s freshman album including the original demo of “Brother Down,” and the hit songs, “Where Have All The Good People Gone?” and “Hard Road.” Sam Roberts went on to win three Juno Awards for the album including the prestigious award for Album of The Year. Since We Were Born In A Flame, the band has been creating and experimenting with music resulting in six full length studio albums, most recently 2016’s TerraForm which followed the 2015 release Counting The Days EP and 2014’s full length album Lo-Fantasy.

Full Track listing:

1. Hard Road
2. Where Have All The Good People Gone?
3. Brother Down
4. Higher Learning
5. Dead End
6. Taj Mahal
7. Every Part of Me
8. The Canadian Dream
9. Rarified
10. On The Run
11. Don’t Walk Away Eileen
12. No Sleep
13. This Wreck of A Life
14. Climb Over Me
15. Paranoia
16. Brother Down +
17. Taj Mahal +
18. Every Part Of Me +
19. On The Run +
20. Say You’ll Be Mine *
21. Got Soul But No Money *
22. Durban Poison *
+ Original Demo
* Previously Unreleased

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SAM ROBERTS BAND ANNOUNCES ‘TERRAFORM’, THEIR 6TH STUDIO ALBUM DUE OCTOBER 28TH

Sam Roberts Band announced their new album TERRAFORM, set for international release on October 28th and available for pre-order today internationally on ITunes, as well as on CD or double vinyl in Canada at Universal Music Canada and elsewhere at Paper Bag Records.

Co-produced by Graham Walsh of H*ly F*ck and Sam Roberts,  the 11 track album was recorded at the Bathouse Recording Studios, in Kingston, Ontario.

After locking themselves in studio for the month of March, the group’s time and spirit lead to the collection of songs that make up TERRAFORM.  Roberts explains, “Terraforming is the concept of going to another planet and making it viable and livable for humans. But in a sense, for this record it can be seen as planting the seeds for that sort of renewal in your own life – that regardless of how much you have broken the parts of your life along the way, there is always a chance to start over.”

TERRAFORM is the sixth full-length album release since 2015’s COUNTING THE DAYS EP and 2014’s album LO-FANTASY. Roberts believes the key to the band’s longevity is their steadfast enthusiasm to stick to their artistic guns and consistently work to make a better album each time.  Roberts emphasizes, “I think the challenge for our band is to still deliver the music with a sense of spontaneity, a sense of urgency and I think that when we go into a new record, we sort of loosen the grips of other people’s expectations and our own expectations.”
 
The lead single “If You Want It” is already a chart-climbing success currently in the top 5 at Alternative radio and counting.  The tune captures what Sam Roberts Band does best; creative instrumental melodies and memorable lyrics that allow their listeners to interpret their own meanings from the songs.  And in Sam’s own words: “It’s about a trip to Hell… And hopefully back…”

TERRAFORM Track listing

1. TerraForm
2. FIEND
3. If You Want It
4. Black Spark
5. Roll With The Spirits
6. Ritual Dance
7. Tourist Trap
8. Rogue Empire
9. Lake Effect
10. The House Inside
11. Spring Fever

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