AUGUST 2008 - NOW MAGAZINE - LIVE REVIEW

Anyone expecting to hear some sweet hymn-singing from this bunch got much more than they bargained for. The Bruce Peninsula delivered a walloping one-two punch of hard-belting harmony singing, bolstered by an amped-up backing band. If this performance was meant to be a statement, it was that the Bruce Peninsula aren’t just a rag-tag assembly of bored hipsters who think it’s cool to croon pre-war gospel and blues numbers, but rather a hugely promising folk-psych ensemble with a dynamic set of darkly twisted original songs ready to unleash. Their debut full-length, A Mountain Is A Mouth, is due to hit any week now. Consider yourself warned.