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Shellac, ‘Canada’: The Week In One Song

- October 23, 2015

This week, Canada gives the Liberal Party a parliamentary majority, bringing Justin Trudeau to power as prime minister.

Here’s “Canada” by Shellac, from their 1998 record Terraform. Frontman and genius sound-engineer Steve Albini once claimed that all of the band’s early songs were about Canada or baseball, so with the Blue Jays currently in the ALCS, the fit to this week’s events is doubly-satisfying.

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