Description

Canoe’s second album The Goldminer is a fictional story album that chronicles the life of a man who missed the Great American gold rush by over 100 years. The story unfolds track by track as we hear of his unfortunate shipwreck en-route to the oil fields of The Caspian Sea, his visions of celestial objects hurling towards earth in The Planet or his bittersweet experience in the Yukon in the song Caribou.

Researching concepts for the album in the Californian Gold Country and panning for gold, Canoe frontman Matt Hoiland has said, “I think the ‘lure of the gold‘ is part destiny and part jealousy. Destiny because you feel as if you were chosen to find this treasure that was hidden for millions of years and that feeling immediately turns to jealousy when the guy panning beside you hollers ‘Eureka!’ I guess these two emotions basically define the album.”

The Goldminer begins stylistically where Canoe’s debut album Places left off on tracks such as Journal or their crowd-favorite rendition of Holland, 1945. The group is more polished, more sincere and the lyricism is unparalleled.

Engineered and mixed by the band over a period of 14 months and mastered by the legendary Alan Douches (Midlake, Sufjan Stevens).