Barenaked Ladies
Having toughed it out for over 15 years, this five-piece, Toronto-based band has an impressive catalogue, from their precocious debut Gordon and career making live album Rock Spectacle, to their multi-platinum breakthrough Stunt and its follow-up Maroon. They are a top concert attraction and musicianship has been one of the band’s founding principles ever since they started out, in their teens, at a Summer Music Camp in Ontario, Canada. On September 12th, BNL released multi-platform versions of Barenaked Ladies Are Me, their most melodic and accessible album since Stunt, featuring the band’s most cohesive and holistic set of songs. More than ever, in this album, they wrote together, jammed together and lived together, raising each other’s standards and blurring the lines of who wrote what.