The Sheepdogs’ Ewan and Shamus Currie first envisioned their new side project back in 2014 after they moved to Toronto from Saskatoon before they recorded the group’s Future Nostalgia record. “We had a fair bit of downtime, and Shamus had sent me some demos of songs he’d been working on,” Ewan recalls. “One was called ‘Brazil,’ and I was really impressed. Right away I wrote down a whole bunch of ideas for production and arrangement, and we started working on the tunes in a little shack in my buddy Frank’s backyard. Shamus would play keys or guitar while I played some terrible drums, and we fumbled our way into arranging ‘Brazil’ and ‘Tell Me.’”

Shamus adds, “We had a bit of a kitchen sink approach to a bunch of these tunes. We’d just go back and forth layering more ideas on until we created these musical collages. We love the sound of those over-produced records from the late 60’s and 70’s when people like the Beatles and the Beach Boys were going crazy with overdubs. We loaded these songs with as many hooks and homages and pieces of ear candy as possible.”

Today we premiere “Brazil” from the forthcoming album by the aptly named BROS, which appears on their equally suitably titled debut record, Vol 1. Shamus describes the song as “an escapist’s fantasy loaded with horns, hooks, and harmonies; it’s a song born out of listening to too many samba records on cold, dark, Canadian winter nights.”

Bros Vol. 1 will become available on October 14. It is now available for pre-order as a download or on vinyl.