Genre:Rock
<p>Following two blurred out, weary years of relentless touring, 2015 saw The
<br>Matinee eager to get back into the studio and rekindle their creative
<br>fire. After the success of their 2013 debut album We Swore We'd See the
<br>Sunrise (featuring the top 20 single Young & Lazy), the band approached
<br>long time cohort Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat, Mounties) with a batch of
<br>undercooked new songs and half-cooked dreams of the next album. Bays
<br>turned to the band and said, "No - we're starting from scratch."</p><p>With Bays and long-time collaborator Ryan Dahle (Limblifter, Age of
<br>Electric, Mounties) at the production helm, the band locked themselves in
<br>Vancouver's fabled Greenhouse Studios for a week - raising their antenna
<br>to the noosphere, courting madness, reaching, stretching, rocking, and
<br>pretty much reinventing themselves.</p><p>The resulting collection of songs - the Broken Arrows EP - is palpable,
<br>not to mention infectious. The session captured a balance of risk and
<br>seasoning - something only achieved after years of friendship and
<br>collaboration, blood, sweat and tears shared on and off the road by these
<br>high school friends.</p><p>"It just worked," concludes vocalist Matt Layzell, on the band's week long
<br>trip to the outer rings of imagination. "It's like a snapshot from a rest
<br>stop along the road of our evolution....and the view is pretty wild."</p>