Tough Baby

Description

The new album from Canadian band Crack Cloud, Tough Baby, is both a call to revolt and a true life manual for the listener. Unsurprisingly, Tough Baby is a raw record brimming with convictions. Zach Choy states, "We made this album without expecting to make another one." But the world evolves, and Tough Baby evolves with it. This new record reflects Choy's view that "we are always maturing emotionally through our experiences, and therefore the way we understand and express them evolves throughout our lives." There is a certain elegance to this record: cinematic dreamer music that draws from the romanticism of the street and the seedy cruises of classic alternative pop. Indeed, this record could be a brilliant 21st-century riposte to bands like the Pogues, the Blockheads, Roxy Music, or Armand Schaubroeck. Tough Baby is music to think about, music to educate, agitate, and organize. Zach Choy: "The name Tough Baby is an allusion to our Planet, our Culture, and Ourselves." And it is there to remind us that even if, to some extent, we are all in the gutter, some of us are looking at the edge of the curb.