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VIDEO: Acres Of Lions – Reaction

• 18th Oct 2012

Canadian heartbreak rockers Acres Of Lions will unleash their first UK release on 26th November, 2012 and will be playing a clutch of live dates in November in support of the album ‘Collections’. Based in Victoria, Canada, they coyly describe themselves as ‘a pop-rock band’ and have cannily hooked up with not one, but two labels – Alcopop! and fierce panda – for this release. The Panda brings the beefy biscuits, Alcopop! bring the indiepowerpop panache.

‘Collections’ was launched in Acres Of Lions’ home wilderness late last year. It is a broken-heart-on-sleeve collection aha of taut-fitting tunes with driving guitars, delicate pianos and subtle-yet-heroic choruses. Listeners of a certain age may hear flashes of ‘90s era collegiate rocksters like Buffalo Tom and Gigolo Aunts in there. Listeners of a slightly different range may recall the emo years of the early noughties when The Get Up Kids and Jimmy Eat World made grown men creep. Musical lovers with very little rage whatsoever may even feel some of that Snow Patrol emotion in the odd sorrowful climax.

As well as a ringing, zinging future they have some cool history as well, do Acres Of Lions: their debut ‘Working’ album in 2009 set out their stealthily melodic stall; parts of the Lions’ lion-up has toured with Against Me!; last year they travelled the lengthy length of Canada in support of Ten Second Epic; this year they have played domestic festivals such as North Vancouver’s Summerfest, Toronto’s Edgefest and Sonic Boom in Edmonton, and spent much of the summer on a government-backed 80 day tour around the province of British
Columbia. Next up, mere nanoseconds before they head back into the studio to record their third album, they make their second trip to Blighty in November.

Live dates
Friday November 9th Camden Barfly Jubilee Club
Saturday November 10th Bristol Fear Of Fiction Festival
Saturday November 17th Shoreditch Old Blue Last
Tuesday November 20th Highbury Buffalo Bar