Ketch Harbour Wolves- Anachronisms
Sometimes we measure beauty by way of perfection and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we muster up the courage to walk with arms outstretched into the world ahead of us and other times we can’t. 
Sometimes we can find the words necessary to say what we really mean while other times our tongues are dry. But it is at all times, at our highest highs and lowest lows, that we thirst for that feeling of freedom that takes on our bodies when we collide with a song. It is very rare to find an entire album that manages to evoke such a thing but Anachronisms by Ketch Harbour Wolves does exactly that.
I had heard that this band was being described as “baroque folk rock,” but couldn’t wrap my head around it until I sat down with the record. Baroque is truly the right word. The music is both free and structurally sound, it is ornamented by increments of elevation and descension, it is lavishly layered, and it maintains a sense of movement that is uniform throughout the entire record, but unique to each song.
There is something big and beautiful about this band and there is something more happening here than meets the eye. These are not just formulaic songs designed to fulfill a particular purpose, there is a higher sense of craft radiating through them.
The band’s lyrics personified by Jonathan Tyrrell’s leading vocals, rise up and cloud the air all around you while seeming to describe places you’re certain you’ve seen but can’t remember being in. These songs are like beautifully worded stories past down by someone’s grandmother. They are the haunting memories of passions past recalled with thoughtful accuracy, and the sometimes lonely way we see our world’s, both real and imagined.
Like a string of irregularly shaped pearls, these songs exist unto themselves. Anachronisms is Ketch Harbour Wolves sophomore release.
For more information see
www.ketchharbourwolves.ca or www.myspace.com/ketchharbourwolves
Rock. Roll & Write,
Juliette Jagger
