Video: Two Hours Traffic - Happiness Burns

Two Hours Traffic mix its uplifting east coast vibe with healthy doses of reality. When listening to Territory, the third full-length from Two Hours Traffic, you can't help but think that if you cut the young members of the Charlottetown quartet, they'd bleed the salt water of Canada's east coast. It's not just the band's chunky power-pop medleys, a remarkably regional sound that reveals these guys as good-old eastern boys. On Territory, it's the themes of the record that allow Two Hours Traffic to show its true colors. Lyrically...

We (or at least I) tend to use the phrase "hill favourite" on a fairly regular basis, and its usually in reference to a band or artist we cover a lot, for one reason or another. But I'm not sure there's any other band I can think of that fits that phrase better than Two Hours Traffic . I mean, I actually went to an actual record store (the legendary, and now defunct, Sam The Record Man on Barrington St. here in Halifax no less) and bought their EP Isolator so I could review it. [...]

• Two Hours Traffic - Territory