You can hear it in the first four bars of the album. A meaty, beaty, big and bouncy drum fill, followed by a glistening guitar line that could have been ripped from an old Rockpile album, and a breathy Hammond B3 so beautifully captured that it seems to conjure the dimensions of the room it sits in. It’s huge, but intimate. Heavy, but airborne. And the hook is strong enough that you could hang a whale from it.

“In the end, we made sort of a two sided record,” says Trews guitarist John Angus MacDonald, of the band’s third album, No Time for Later. “It’s some of the heaviest stuff we’ve done, but it’s also some of the most out there artistically that we’ve ever laid down.”

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Nova Scotia’s The Trews will rock their home country with a coast-to-coast tour this April and May.

The cross-Canada run will kick off April 14 at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom and wrap up May 29 at Montreal’s Cabaret.

The band is backing their third album “No Time For Later,” which was released in February.

“The Canadian tour is just around the corner and we’re looking forward to seeing more great Canadian crowds, nothing beats rocking in the homeland,” vocalist-guitarist Colin MacDonald wrote on the band’s website Sunday.

The quartet is currently touring all over the U.S. and will play a show in Las Vegas Wednesday night.

The Trews, who are presently based in Toronto, released their first full-length album “House of Ill Fame” in 2003.

Here are The Trews’ Canadian tour dates:

- April 14 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
- April 15 Whistler, BC @ Buffalo Bills
- April 16 Whistler, BC @ Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival
- April 17 Kelowna, BC@ Flashbacks
- April 19 Edmonton, AB @ Events Centre
- April 21 Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall
- April 22 Saskatoon, SK @ The Roxy
- April 24 Brandon, MB @ Canad Inn
- April 25 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
- April 26 Thunder Bay, ON @ C2 Night Club
- May 2 Sarnia, ON @ The Industry Theatre
- May 3 Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
- May 28 Ottawa, ON @ Capital Music Hall
- May 29 Montreal, QB @ Cabaret

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