Straight Up
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Straight Up is the third studio album by Endrick & the Sandwiches. Their “working class rock” nouveau genre is more refined than ever.
The pieces speak above all of the intimacy of slightly faded flowers with irony and eroticism. Rocker’s Blinkers is a “Beat” text on “straight up Rock’n’roll”. It's about the joy of not owing anything to anyone even if you have nothing, apart from a harmonica that squeaks like Dylan. Check Engine On is a “cheap” and rhythmic little stroll about fleeting love affairs set to the kitsch sound of the Farfisa organ. Hornby Island is the hippie territory of British Columbia in three musical acts: British folk with mandolins, the hypnotic pulsation of organs, then the rock explosion inspired by epic parties.
The voice is often spoken like Lou Reed and Endrick's eternal candor recalls a certain Ringo Starr.
The production and mixing of Jean-Bruno Pinard brought the group towards a pure and modern sound in order to serve the more mature subject and the more authentic tone of the themes discussed. Blues rock that breathes like Dire Straits with a Bahamas sound: intimate, jerky and sexy. Endrick played organ, Rhodes, harmonica, mandolin, acoustics and electric and slide guitars. He is accompanied by Simon Ethier, Mandela Coupal-Dalgleish, Greg “The Mac” McEvoy and the voices of Marie-Pier Lavallée and Anne Lauzière.
We can summarize the album with the sermon sung frontally on the boogie Before Heaven: “Remember to enjoy yourself while you can, cause life is a deadly disease.”
Think J.J. Cale, Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Lou Reed, Sheryl Crow, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr, The Band, Donovan.
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