The Rise, by The Rural Alberta Advantage

The Rise

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1.	CANDU 03:40	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 decisions 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 decisions 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.	3 Sisters 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Lighting grips the highway strips Aways brings you back to this I don't ever want to drive Passing through the Cap tonight, for a song Then we're moving on Sleepy Giants Unemployed Cultural Centers all devoid And if I'm finally gone I'll make it up before we're done Oh, moving on Missing out on the Saulte, lake-effect coming on Oh, moving on If I'm ever wrong I'll make it up before we're gone I don't ever want to drive Take care of me tonight Wait on a Solar Eclipse Glancing past you're pretty lips And if I'm ever wrong I'll make it up before we're done Oh, moving on Missing out on the Saulte, lake-effect was too strong Oh, moving on If I'm ever wrong I'll make it up before we're gone Under the eyes of 3 Sisters We were young, only for a little while Take of me, We were young, only for a little while Under the eyes of 3 Sisters You were young, only for a little while If I'm ever wrong I'll make it before we're gone
3.	Lifetime 03:46	lyrics	buy track
It's a bad mistake to hide From you and the wicked wind Coming on Maybe I was working this out on The darkest day in five It'll bring some change, but I was wrong Honestly we were trying to breathe But creaky seals bring the dust Oh while you were running away I was coming around too All the bad mistakes and I We can whittle them down With the tip of my knife Maybe I've been working too long in The dust I swear it's fine There's gonna be some change coming on Honestly we were trying to see But you were all gone Oh while you were running away I was coming around to Only realize I wasn't strong enough for you Oh it's a long hard year, waiting on the this lonely sun IF I COULD ONLY RUN! It's a long hard year, waiting on the this lonely sun IF I COULD ONLY RUN! I CAN'T STAND Anymore this year, waiting on this lonely sun IF I COULD ONLY RUN! I CAN'T STAND Anymore this year, waiting on this lonely sun IF I COULD ONLY RUN! IF I COULD ONLY RUN! IF I COULD ONLY RUN! Holy fuck it's been a lifetime Since I last saw the light in you Dust in the eyes Arms cold and white And a ghost was killing you
4.	10ft Tall 02:43	lyrics	buy track
Had a dream you were 10ft tall Locked inside your beautiful skull Hanging on through the rise and the fall I went looking around but Never could ever recall What scares you in the life Well I'd vanquish it right in the fog Hazy love & the weight of time ain't bad after all I'll be round for the first final call Biding my time Just waitin around while I'm small All through the night Building on a body of songs But I was there tucked in your head Tallying the days singing songs you forget When you're finally awake & I'm not tall Often in the night I try to pass you advice Over slow moving chords Somehow if you never wake up again I won't stay quiet But the songs still cut through the void But I was there tucked in your head Tallying the days singing songs you forget When you're finally awake & I'm not tall A thousand times I forgot the lines So I sketched this, on the back of your eyes All along I know it's a lot to absorb Please don't stop me if I've told you this all before
5.	AB Bride 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Come cling to me Northern 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 Southern 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 It's unbearable, impressive, sometimes both Should have tried harder to Let you know, let you know, let you go, Let you know, let you know
6.	Late September Snow 03:27	lyrics	buy track
Had enough I couldn't figure this out While the flies bid goodbye in autumn's light So while we're sleeping send the clipper forth Since your loss, I sense your summer designs Could swear you seen me before played it over my mind I know this change it brings a heavy heart Breaks us all apart So, I don't know where the days they go I'm always shocked by late September's Snow I don't know where the weeks they go Now we're racing through this endless decline I'm getting lost once in awhile Couldn't grasp the tone, nevermind Barren world are we running outta time I guess the missteps pressed us, back into line I know this change it brings a heavy heart Breaks us all apart So, I don't know where the days they go I'm always shocked by late September's Snow I don't know how the years erode I'm always lost every time you go While you were awake tonight Tossing and a turning while the wind blows, through my mind Always waking up it's getting colder but then I don't know The clipper breathes a sigh Everything’s ending, it's a struggle for the country and I I swear I'm waking up it's getting colder but then I don't know Where the days they go We're always shocked by late September's Snow I don't know how the year erodes I'm always lost every time you go

about

The Rise is the first word in a conversation, the first step on a new, unkept trail. It’s the beginning of a new era for the Toronto trio, and the first of three pieces in a year-long puzzle, which will be constructed over three separate releases.

On its own, The Rise tells its own six-track story through Paul Banwatt’s thundering drums, Amy Cole’s hammered keys and crystalline harmonies, and Nils Edenloff’s furious acoustics and soaring, wheaty tenor. At times, it’s literal and visceral, like the blowing dust of “Lifetime,” or the hardy, galloping roadtrip post-mortem of “3 Sisters,” or the slow, naked march of “Late September Snow.” At others it’s hallucinatory and surreal, like the vivid, crashing dreamscape of “10Ft Tall.

Discussing this first installment of new music, and The RAA’s return, Edenloff notes, “We just go only based on heart and gut and try to let our minds get out of the way, because more often than not those just trip us up.” Cole adds, “We’re so intrigued by the idea of different perspectives and memories in these songs, and then this ultimate view of ‘Is any of it anything?”

That dichotomy—between what is assumed to be objective, real and tangible, and what is not is explored by Alberta photographer Leroy Schulz’s work that accompanies the EP and lead singles “CANDU” and “AB Bride.” Schulz flew drones over Alberta landscapes and took photos from above, looking down on rows of fir trees, barns, crops, and grass. From this perspective, the settings look unrecognizable, even unreal, like some alien planet. The shapes, shadows, lines, and textures are foreign, yet these are scenes of home.

The past two years have upended all that we thought to be concrete. The Rise, like this period, is a complication of what we assume to be familiar and true and unchanging. It’s the start of something new.

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released March 31, 2022

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