Bahamas at History Ottawa

Bahamas (Afie Jurvanen), along with his band, returns to Ottawa Wednesday October 7 at History in support of My Second Last Album.

The Industrial Sport & Sound Tour follows My Second Last Album’s recent JUNO Awards win for Best Adult Alternative Album, marking Bahamas' sixth JUNO-win!
Winnipeg based JUNO nominated singer-songwriter Boy Golden kicks off the evening.

Producer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Van Tassel and Jurvanen played every sound on My Second Last Album, from the buzzing acoustics of “Shadows” to the mellotron ostinato of “Play the Game.” This self-dependence allowed them to do anything they wanted, to follow musical enthusiasms into any space they favoured. Jurvanen wrote “The Bridge” via text with Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor, and he and Van Tassel turned it into an infectious country-funk tune, the strutting refrain closing the gap between Little Feat and Canned Heat. “Ready for a New Thing” echoes Joni Mitchell’s famous electric guitar tone, using it as the core of a buoyant little pop song about growing up, about being happy with growing older. “Feels So Good” is a modern soul wonder, its perfect groove framed by bass, piano, and finger-snap drums and built with a brilliant amount of negative space. There is charging indie rock, hazy piano, and pastoral folk-rock. Again, My Second Last Album is anything Van Tassel and Jurvanen wanted it to be. 

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Presented by spectrasonic with the support of Ontario Creates.