New Music Alert: RAA

The new album from Rural Alberta Advantage came out today!  DEPARTING is a great follow-up to the amazingly steller, Hometowns (2009).  There's something about Canadians that allow them to make energetic and moving indie rock, without the pretension. RAA is marked by an acoustic guitar being propelled forward by strong drums and growling melodic vocals singing of heart ache and winter. Here's the single off the new album; it's called Stamp:

They are playing the Bowery Ballroom on March 10th (which I am attending so stay tuned for iPhone photos from the show) and Knitting Factory, Brooklyn March 12th.  After the jump, my favorite track off the 2009 album: