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Poor Young Things – Let It Sleep

POOR YOUNG THINGS open for the Trews at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Friday and Saturday (March 23 and 24) and play the Horseshoe March 24, all as part of CMW. Rating: NNN


Young small-town band members move to the big city. Leave behind their roots/country sound for aspirational rock and roll. Live together in a big house. Practise around the clock. Record with dream producer.

That’s Poor Young Things’ story in a nutshell, and their glossy five-song EP, produced by Jon Drew, does its best to convey that sense of uprooting, angst and excitement. Striving comes through in their driving rhythms, hooky guitars and well-rehearsed chops. They left Thunder Bay for Toronto, and they’re here to make it.

Singer/guitarist Matt Fratpietro has a good voice for radio rock: full and emotive but free of affected grit. The lyrics, though: on Let It Sleep, the city will eat you up and spit you out on Americanist, it’s all-night riots while the city sleeps. (“The city” is the main subject on offer.)

No doubt the melodrama is sincere. They just need more time to find their own unique way of translating it.

Top track: The Low Road

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