Harem Scarem

Go Team Canada!

Tough, powerful and effortlessly tuneful, Harem Scarem’s fifteenth studio album and finds the band doing what they do best: cranking out exceedingly well-crafted melodic rock. If it ain’t broke, and all that. Writing team Harry Hess and Pete Lesperance seem to be mining a particularly rich seam of inspiration of late, and this album absolutely does not disappoint, with songwriting that is imaginative and inventive while still delivering the expected golden choruses and irresistible harmonies. Mid-tempo rockers like and are the order of the day, although and have a bit more zip and grit to them. And of course there’s the obligatory power ballad, in the shape of , which thankfully manages to avoid descending into pure schmaltz.