Hailing from Prince Edward Island, Two Hours Traffic comes armed with a band-based sound, fresh-voiced on tracks like “Territory” from their latest release of the same name. “Noisemaker” builds from an American Band Rock sound with doses of Garage Rock intensity, charging along on Andrew MacDonald’s fabulous bass line. Taking some 80’s walking synth, “Wicked Side” shuffles its way into your brain. There’s a New Wave balladry of heart-on-sleeve fashion for “Painted Halo.” The keys and vocals on “Drop Alcohol” are almost reminiscent of Hall & Oates at their “Maneater” best. The plaintive, bedroom track “Sing a Little Hymn” wrestles with what faith in God means and how that relates to love (“I’m a freethinker who believes in God/When I get to feeling blue, I don’t go to a pew/I just sing a little hymn/’Cause I don’t know what I’d do without love”). Things pick up again with the acoustic guitar-led “Heroes of the Sidewalk” and the jamming of “Jezebel.”
Two Hours Traffic
Bumstead Productions
