Mounties

Hawksley Workman returns to Huntsville for another chapter, this time profiling Canada's newest indie rock supergroup Mounties, sharing the stage with Steve Bays, the main songwriter and frontman for Hot Hot Heat and Ryan Dahle, the brains behind indie stalwarts Limblifter and Age of Electric. After a chance meeting at the 2009 Juno Awards the trio finally found time to sit down for a two week recording session three years later. Improvised from the ground-up—the session featured Workman on drums, Bays and Dahle on an array of vintage guitars and keyboards—and captured to tape, once the three bandmates were finished throwing ideas at each other in an old Airstream trailer sitting outside. “we just did that day in and day out,” says Bays, who refers to Mounties as a dream project. “You end up with jammy kind of music but just poppy enough that it doesn’t seem too self-indulgent.” Adds Dahle: “I think we’re looking for something that excites all three of us at once.” Considering what each of these musicians has achieved separately over the years, and how much we might owe them as fans and listeners, the implications of that statement are fairly staggering.