Home > Products > CHRIS WOLLARD & THE SHIP THIEVES 'Canyons' CHRIS WOLLARD & THE SHIP THIEVES 'Canyons' $7.00. No Idea Records. No Idea Release NIR-323. The Ship Thieves: Chris Wollard - vocals, guitars, bass, organ Addison Burns - guitar, bass, drums, vocals Chad Darby - bass. I'm gonna talk about Canyons, the newish record by Chris Wollard And The Ship Thieves now. It sounds like Chris Wollard having fuckin' fun. Hot Water Music (from which the songwriter and performer cannot possibly be divorced from now) is, well, emotive and anthemic.

Seemingly out of nowhere there’s a new Chris Wollard album, which comes hot on the heels of Hot Water Music’s last release. There’s simply no stopping this guy! Four years after the Ship Thieves’ debut, their sound has changed quite a bit. Whereas the self-titled album felt more like a solo outing by Wollard, this one is a solid band effort.

It rocks from start to finish, touching upon a myriad of different styles along the way. Ten cate enbi rochester ny. The album starts off with “Dream In My Head”, a straight up classic rock barroom brawler that immediately sounds familiar with Wollard’s warm voice.

Next up is “Poison Friends”, a songs that sounds as if they took the fight out to the parking lot. After that the tunes range from Southern rock (“Runaway Train”) to songs suited for the porch (“Lonely Days”) and instant classics (“Heavy Rolling Thunder”). The only constants are Wollard’s voice and the solid guitar licks. “Canyons” may have come out almost unnoticed late last year but it’s undoubtedly one of my favourite albums from 2012.

I don’t think this guy is capable of writing a bad song even if he tried to!

Chris Wollard And The Ship Thieves Canyons This review originally ran in AP 293. 2012 has already brought us the triumphant return of Hot Water Music with the awesome Exister, so the fact that we’re getting a new full-length from HWM guitarist/vocalist Chris Wollard’s side project is just icing on the PBR cake. (It’s a real thing; Google it.) Wollard uses the bulk of Canyons to deliver amped-up roots rock with shit-kicker guitar leads and vocals buried just deep enough in the mix where you have to turn to the lyric sheet to understand what he’s singing. Think of it as a slightly more Southern-rock version of Dinosaur Jr. And you’re close. Unlike the Ship Thieves’ 2009 self-titled debut, Canyons is a largely electric affair, which means a number of songs kind of blend together into one long guitar solo.

But man, that guitar solo is tits.