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Introducing Happiness

582.3K streams

582,259

Melville

566.8K streams

566,830

Whale Music

551.6K streams

551,581

Here Come the Wolves

272.1K streams

272,064

The Night of the Shooting Stars

114K streams

113,977

2067

95.1K streams

95,141

The Blue Hysteria

76.6K streams

76,616

Double Live

75.9K streams

75,896

Vancouver

74.1K streams

74,087

Greatest Hits

62.3K streams

62,291

Biography

Ever bound for ragged glory, Rheostatics occupy a unique place in the Canadian music landscape, pulled together and apart for nearly forty years. Finding grace in the reality of endurance, Rheostatics show us a special type of longevity, through upheaval, personal (and personnel) change, and a basic refusal to play the game in any way, shape or form, stretched over decades. Now, Rheostatics return with Here Come The Wolves, their first new album in 15 years. On Here Come The Wolves, you'll find Rheostatics trusting their complicated formula, a signature multiplicity of songwriters, artistic instincts and concerns. Produced by Chris Stringer with mixing contributions by Chris Walla, Michael Phillip Wojewoda and Gus Van Go, over twelve songs Here Come The Wolves unfurls like a cross-section of the band's cumulative experience, individual and collective. The title track, a "gear shifting, vocal stacking, wild riffing, sh*t kicking," testament to finding balance in discord, exemplifies this spirit literally (everybody gets a solo) and figuratively (it's a complex but catchy tune). This ‘single,' a funny term for a song of three distinct parts, is a metonymic microdose of stacking wholes: the album, the band in 2019, the Rheostatics' very way of being since 1980.