Where I Started

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Details: Amazon.ca The second major-label album from hard-hitting Saskatoon rock trio Wide Mouth Mason could as well be titled We’ve Got a Wah-Wah Pedal and We’re Going to Use It, at least with respect to the first three numbers. However, once the windy blues-rock clichs of « Why, » « Alone, » and « Burn » are out of the way, Where I Started really begins. The band’s poppier instincts come to the fore on « Companion (Lay Me Down), » « Half a Chance, » « Empty Seat, » and the melancholy closer, « Falling Down. » Stylistically ambitious tunes like « Sugarcane, » which works in a reggae rhythm, and the sea-shanty-ish « King of Poison » give the album further heft. As on the group’s debut, Shaun Verreault manages to redeem even the more pedestrian material with Velcro-like riffs (« Old, » for instance), while the rhythm section of Safwan Javed (drums) and Earl Pereira (bass) serve the time-honoured blues-rock-band tradition of matching the front man’s vocal and guitar-playing intensity. Where I Started shows some evidence of growing pains, but comes out all right in the long run. –Shawn Conner

UPC: 639842673921

EAN: 0639842673921

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New