
There's a moment about half way through "The Gambler and His Bride" where someone who's paying close attention to the song can travel back through time and space to the day last summer when Daniel Romano, Fred Squire and Julie Doiron were recording it in Squire's garage. Amidst the gentle plucking and raw harmonies you can hear the rumble of a motorcycle's arrival (or a passing car), and it sounds like the musicians paid it nary any mind, content to finish what was started. There's an impulse to say that the recordings they made that week out in Nova Scotia [...]