“There’s a buzz on the Agnostics. Did they expect it? Hell, no. After all, the band was thrown together on a week’s notice for their inaugural gig. St. Hubert, their 2003 debut recording, was self-financed, self-produced, and self-released. Yet it cracked numerous Canadian campus radio top 20 play lists, got them invited to roots music festivals, was spotlighted on several CBC radio shows, garnered them an appearance on Much Music despite that they didnt fit the demographic audiences tastes, was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award, and, in the end, gave them the incentive to record a follow-up, Fighting and Onions.
“The Delta blues and mountain music still kicks something fierce, just like the people who invented them, but the styles are warped in a way that bucks at conservative traditionalism or quaint stereotypes. Slide guitar and banjo collide with a clanging drum kit and weighty stand-up bass. Devils music? Sure. If the Agnostics believed in that mumbo-jumbo. Maybe. It’s two years since St. Hubert. They’re two years better as a band.”
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