The band’s classic second album, newly reissued on baby blue vinyl and blue & white wave vinyl!

As its name suggests, Champ is a triumph – an album of taut catchy anthems that display a vigour and fizz and from the Toronto four piece. Stand out songs include the electronic pop of “Bambi,” the curiously titled duo “Favourite Foods” and “Favourite Colour” and the urgently anthemic “Wait Up (Boots of Danger).” Again Dave Monk’s lyrics are a real highlight with strikingly juxtaposed imagery – “the killer with the coloured kite,” “the national child star in a coat and a scarf, alone in the laundromat.” Ultimately, though it’s the fizz bomb youthful energy of the songs that appeals most.

TRACKLIST

A1        Favourite Food
A2        Favourite Colour
A3        Breakneck Speed
A4        Wait Up (Boots of Danger)
A5        Bambi
A6        End of a Spark
B1        Hands Reversed
B2        Gone
B3        Big Difference
B4        Not Sick
B5        Frankenstein