The Rural Alberta Advantage: Departing - review

(Saddle Creek)It's not just their name that's geographically precise: the songs of the Rural Alberta Advantage are vividly specific in their sense of place. Frontman Nils Edenloff – who grew up in rural Alberta – takes us to "the woods where we first felt God", past "the cemetery where my father tried to start a new life", up the hills where tentative lovers gaze at the north star, imbuing every melancholy word with the nostalgic relief of one who escaped (the band are based in Toronto). The...

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