Album Notes

"Life Is Good", Todd Hunter Band's current album, demonstrates the band's nostalgic fondness for the classic two-sided vinyl records they listened to as kids. Side One of "Life Is Good" showcases the band's pop sensibilities with hope, patience, recovery, and forgiveness-themed songs. The album seems to signal a departure from the despair-ridden songs off of "Remember", but Side Two returns to the band's college rock roots with several nihilistic gems. The result is a record that, although split into two halves musically and lyrically, still maintains the now definitive Todd Hunter Band sound while preaching a new message: life is good, but it's never easy.

Winnipeg singer/songwriter Todd Hunter and bandmates Jeff Derksen (guitar, vocals), Larry Kowalski (bass guitar) and Brett Papineau (drums) perform melodic adult alternative pop-rock. The summer of 2004 marked the release of THB's debut album Remember which earned positive reviews and TOP 20 chart positions at several college campus radio stations in Canada, regional commercial radioplay, airtime on various CBC programs, and feature-usage for one of its songs in the CTV/Lifetime movie “Playing House”. With an upcoming TV appearance on PBS’s “Sound Check”, and the follow-up album Life Is Good now available, Todd Hunter Band is poised to reach a much larger audience.

PRESS REVIEWS

"FILE UNDER: Two sides of Life. SUBSTANCE: Remember vinyl records? Of course you don't. But the guys in the Todd Hunter Band do. And fondly. So their impressive sophomore disc Life Is Good is set up like a phonograph record, with one "side" of summery, rootsy alt-pop and another of darker, edgier fare. Double your pleasure. STANDOUTS: The Coldplayish glisten of the title cut; the Blue Rodeoish We're Fine; the crunching How I Need You Now. ***1/2 (out of ****)" - Darryl Sterdan, Sun Media