CANDU ::: AB Bride, by The Rural Alberta Advantage

CANDU ::: AB Bride

by The Rural Alberta Advantage

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1.	CANDU 03:39	lyrics	buy track
Tether your hopes, on a city full of ghosts You are all alone under Uranium City lights As you screamed, through the Mezzanine Waking up I know its hard to fill the hole with a dream I know the vandals won't strike twice While there's bodies there in the mines I know the tailings build the roads I hope the radiations low All these terrible descisions coming on Are they coming for us or not? Inside of me the poison screams Running out of time to find the space and the need I know its hard to negotiate the dream I know you're working in the cold Still got your father's eye in your skull After the mines they all closed You found your father in the snow All these terrible descisions we forgot Are they coming for us or not? I want to give it time, grow up alone Called from the mountain top you said "all that's left are tableaus" "Maybe it's a matter of time" "Back on the on the edge of an open pit mine" "Maybe it's all working out" "Never thought I'd be the one embracing the doubts" "I know its hard to negotiate the dream" "Maybe I can hear you scream" I know its hard to negotiate the dream Maybe I can hear you scream
2.	AB Bride 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Come cling to me Northen Alberta Bride Sit and listen to the heart, one more time I don't know if we're cementing the designs Getting lost the in weeks hours, maybe more tonight I only wonder about you half the time Standing, waiting on the corner, on the 1st of July I only want to hear the treble lines I only want to sing the treble lines too... The way things are going It's harder than you'll ever know To send you off now with a song Come sing to me Southen Alberta Wife It's been a while somewhere between 10 & 5 I only want to hear the treble lines I only want to hear Where you been so long So start where we left it off All along while the day slips by and on The way things are going It's harder than you'll ever know It's a long way where we were once I tried to make the time Try to bring one last song for your now Like we talked back when we were young I'm sending my regards to the coast Its unbearable, impressive, sometimes both Should have tried harder to Let you know, let you know, let you go, Let you know, let you know

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Acclaimed percussive folk-rock trio, The Rural Alberta Advantage (The RAA) have released two new songs: "CANDU" alongside accompanying track “AB Bride” are the first new offerings of music from the award-winning trio since 2017’s album The Wild. They are also the first recordings since the return of core band member, Amy Cole, and hint at the new influences informing the band's sonic palette, songwriting and creative evolution.

"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 - 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.”

The RAA's music connects us to untold stories and an unpacked history we all have a part in owning, reflecting on, learning from and possibly seeing from a different vantage point: the overview effect. “CANDU” + “AB Bride” preview a band driven to continue the musical conversation with their fans, in real time.

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released February 8, 2022

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