The Rural Alberta Advantage



The Rural Alberta Advantage
The Wild
Saddle Creek/Paper Bag


ADDS 10/17/17
CD/DIGITAL
“The Wild is a rabid, sweaty, dirty, beautiful beast of a record that feels like the kind of record you might have hoped they’d be making almost a decade on from Hometowns.” - GoldFlakePaint 
The Rural Alberta Advantage -- Nils Edenloff, Paul Banwatt and Robin Hatch -- are excited to share their new album, The Wild, out October 13 via Saddle Creek (US) and Paper Bag (CAN).
Change is constant. Certainly that's always been the case with The Rural Alberta Advantage. Through three albums, Juno and Polaris nominations, the steady hum of critical praise and the relentless miles of constant touring, the trio have not just been confronted with change, they have been wailing, pounding and sighing their way through it. Change hung over them in the melancholy nostalgia of Hometowns, shook them during the finding-your-feet urgency of Departing and found its way through their cracks in the turmoil of Mended with Gold.
Though it's always left a mark on the band, as they journey into The Wild, their fourth album, this perpetual change seemed to be casting a darker shadow. Maybe it's the fact that singer and songwriter Edenloff almost watched his childhood home of Fort McMurray burn to the ground. Maybe it's just that everyone in the band is getting older. Maybe it's just that we've all had a rough year. But never before has the band felt quite so surrounded by the heaviness of being - nor quite so determined to pull through.
The band will also hit the road joined by Vancouver's Yukon Blonde for two months through North America beginning October 20. The U.S. dates include a two night stand in New York City, as well as stops in Washington D.C., Atlanta, Nashville, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more. Check out all the dates here and contact us with any requests! 


RIYL: Neutral Milk Hotel, Wolf Parade, Okkervil River, The National, Plants and Animals

TRY: #4, 1, 2, 5, 6



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http://www.theraa.com/

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