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Sam Roberts is a rock-star sophisticate. At home in Montreal, he often listens to classical music. (He has played violin since he was 4.) He looks good on the cover of men's magazines, even with his trademark scruffy hair and beard. And the Juno-winning singer-songwriter, whose...
The big thinking behind the 10 songs on Roberts' latest release, Chemical City, out on Tuesday, is urban decay. If that sounds heavy, fear not: the CD features much of the cool, '70s-style guitar work fans will remember from Roberts' last album and the smash single of 2002, Brother...
The Gate, the psychedelic opening track (and the odd choice for the album's first single), sets up the collection, describing a traveler's arrival at a strange and soulless city after a long voyage. From there, Roberts says, songs zoom in and out from general attributes of the imaginary...
There are few people more qualified than Roberts, 31, to write such an album. A self-described "wandering spirit," he is a compulsive traveler. For years before he made it big, he worked flexible jobs in Montreal--waiting tables, delivering furniture--to fund trips around the world. He visited Indonesia...
For Chemical City Roberts visited Mauritius and South Africa before settling down to work with his band in Australia (because, he says, it was about as far from home as he could get). They made the album in New South Wales, recording in an old church, with Roberts writing many...