Album Notes

Straight out of Southern Ontario, BATTLE CREEK is a family of five friends living and loving. Passionate, searching lyrics and heart-driven vocals define the unique sound that Battle Creek brings together.

Their debut album, "Hold Hope, Oh Withered Tree", is an inspired blend of painstaking composition and raw passion. In this eleven track opus, Battle Creek has drawn from their indie/punk rock roots and branched out, following both folkier and poppier muses resulting in an eclectic mix that doesn't stray from their melodic, dynamic and heart-felt core.



Review From The Kitchener Record:

Though Battle Creek's music could lazily be labelled "indie rock," such tags don't do the band justice. For a debut album, Hold Hope Oh Withered Tree is a bold and adventurous fusion of diverse musical genres.

It takes guts, for instance, for an indie band to incorporate accordion, glockenspiel, cello, violin and trombone into pop-based songs.

Comparisons could be drawn to Arcade Fire, Polyphonic Spree, Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene, but Battle Creek is not derivative of any of them.

When the album fades to a close -- in one of the most gorgeous outro melodies since Hey Jude's na-na-na -- the listener is left with a sense of happiness [and] fulfilment...