With first-time producer Andrew Scott (Sloan) at the helm, Steel City Trawler emerges as a cleverly assembled balance of Luke's courageously straightforward assessments with the essential components of classic rock and roll. Luke's observation-driven commentaries are found in songs such as "Thinking People", an homage to blue collars, "The Ballad of Ian Curtis," an examination of suicide and creative legacy, and "Dusted", which takes direct aim at metaphysical answers to earth-bound questions. Not one to rest on his guitar playing laurels, Steel City Trawler is as much about the song as the strum.
Hamiltonm ON's own Harvey Pekar, David Collier, brings a Being John Malkovich style approach to Luke's biography, with a kind of "inhabitation" of Luke's world and experience. Alternately free from irony and at the same time somehow tongue-in-cheek, Collier's work is an original comic book interpretation of lyrics from the new songs, Hamilton’s geography and history, as well as Luke's own life, past and present.
A new behind-the-scenes video offers insight into the record, from Luke's take on why Hamilton is such an attractive place to settle (hint: it has everything to do with Winnipeg), interviews with Andrew Scott and David Collier, and intimate acoustic snippets of songs. Hear Some of You Folks, which Luke describes as an experiment in "shared uncomfortable intimacy," Hey Now, which tells a story of unease with announcing one's intentions to the world, and Magpie, a post Elliot Smith acoustic ballad a la Dust in the Wind, a song that lets the sounds of a city in to create a sense of solid ground in its otherwise atmospheric feel.
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