Crokinole anyone?

And a good story is what Penner is all about. Take the band's debut, Hymns for the Happy, which is due to be re-released by Baudelaire Records on September 25. As Penner says, "The overall theme of the album is one of fables and turning the area you grew up in into this magical place, or creating your own history. Or something that can be related to other people in a more interesting way."

One of the ways Sunparlour Players succeeds on the new record is the band's intense creativity. This is heard in juxtapositions between the rawkus stomp and yowls found on John Had a Bell and a Whistle and the elegiac orchestrations and vocals of If the Creeks Don't Rise. The Players seem to be constantly evolving as their history comes from equal parts old country and old punk. "I really like different sounds, like where you can hear a pin drop, but I also like getting nailed in the face with a song," Penner admits about his fondness for varied music.

As for the band's name, Penner took inspiration from his hometown, which has the nickname of Sun Parlour of Ontario due to the greater humidity and fabulous growing of its tomato crops. For Penner, though, he says he's been in love with the name for a long time, but admits that when he was just starting off, playing solo, he didn't have the balls to call himself "players." Glad he finally found some friends.

Sunparlour Players
w/ Jane Vain, Entire Cities, The Rural Alberta Advantage
Thursday, August 23, at 8 p.m., $10
Black Sheep Inn
www.iheartmusic.net











 
 

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