With just the right balance of swagger and earnestness West Hammock are swinging into view. The three-piece from Port Perry Ont., have been building up their gig list including a couple of dates with The Strumbellas and opening for USS and touring the S.Ont. circuit.
On stage lead singer Hunter Sheridan on acoustic guitar provides a calming presence to keyboardist and vocalist, (the anything but quiet man) Sean Thornton, who brings the rock 'n roll swagger of a dude who doesn't have a Plan B. He also rocks the accordion!! So dig that all you pretty things. Drummer Ryan Mead binds the two. The three work.
The brightness of their tracks on their River EP wander into the beachy reaches of Jason Miraz or Arrested Development but mostly one can see these three as those renegades riding the waves of the world in a stripped down Jeep. West Hammock revel in their youthfulness and share the relaxed sunny side up attitude of their peers; this band don't just hang ten they hang 30. West Hammock may be the soundtrack to Justin Trudeau's predicted sunny ways ahead for Canada.