Yours to Break

During the writing of their third album, the three East Pointers were scattered across the globe, each a long way from their base on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada's Maritime Provinces. Tim Chaisson (vocals, fiddle, percussion) was in Costa Rica, his brother Koady (banjo, tenor guitar, Moog) was in Australia, and their mainland pal Jake Charron (guitar, keyboards) was in the UK. Perhaps that goes some way to explaining the sheer breadth of the genre-defying sound they've created here.

Since their award-winning debut Secret Victory from 2015 and through its equally-lauded successor What We Leave Behind a couple of years later, their music has proved a delightfully evolving dance between the traditional fiddle music they continue to celebrate (not least by continuing the Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival founded by their grandfather) and a sound more akin to the pop songs they grew up hearing on the radio. Here, Nova Scotia-born producer Gordie Sampson, who has also worked with the like of Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts, lends a pleasing, audience-friendly heft to their sound. Lucy Farrell of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winning Furrow Collective also contributes to a collection that consolidates their previous successes while pointing to some intriguing ways forward they could explore.