Album Notes

Remember the early 90s? Back when a song could be both catchy and intelligent, when it could be beautiful but still dark? When the singer/songwriter didn't have to be anything but a boy or girl next door? Calgary-based duo Rogers Carrot remembers all of these things, and with their first offering, Mine Is Yellow, it's clear that they're intent on reviving this lost era.

“People aren't in a continuous state of happiness or sadness,” says Rogers Carrot front man, twenty-year-old Jonathan Ferguson. “They're certainly not simple either.” he adds. “So why shouldn't music reflect that?”

And on Mine Is Yellow both Jonathan's own songs and the songs of his bandmate Gavin Caldwell display this blatant humanity quite vividly. “Unprepared” a song about the perils of living up to yourself, “Driven” and it's detailed and immersive account of a love wrought with near hits and misses, and “Too Cold”, the band's anthem for people coping with bipolar and other depression disorders.

But were the songs only deep, they would be forgetting one half of the sacred 90s mantra: Make it singable. Across the album's twenty odd minutes are countless hooks and enough sparkle and sweetness to leave you with nothing else but a feeling of contentment and warmth by it's end. But what is it that they're trying to tell you?

“The songs we write could be about anyone sure,” says Jonathan, “But I think it's much better if someone feels like the song could have come from them. So if there's any agenda in place here, that's gotta be it.”