Listen@MBV, But On Fluxblog: Hank

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The latest Listen@MBV full-album stream is the new record from Hank, a Toronto-based band led by songwriter Cab Williamson. The Luck of the Singers is their first album in four years and though it took nearly as long to write and record, its sound is rather immediate and un-fussy. As on their acclaimed previous record How To Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, the songs have a distinct out-of-time quality that uproots the music from chronology, and leaves much of the material sounding as though it could be an authentic artifact from any year from the past five decades. Williamson’s deep, droll voice and witty lyrics anchor most of the songs, but he’s often joined by the lovely voices of his female bandmates, whose high, pretty tones complement and balance out his hyper-masculine style. The Luck of the Singers is stylistically varied, but aesthetically consistent, and so it’s very much the sort of record that’s best heard in one sitting.