As they celebrate their 38th year as a band, 54-40 will be in 琉璃神社 March 31 performing from their new album Keep On Walking.

The album Keep On Walking has been described as an eclectic, propulsive, album in a career spilling over with them.

Featuring 11 original songs helmed by a quartet of superstar producers, Keep On Walking is a vivid snapshot of precisely where singer/guitarist Neil Osborne, bassist Brad Merritt, drummer Matt Johnson, and guitarist Dave Gennfind themselves today.

The album鈥檚 rock anthem 鈥淪ucker For Your Love,鈥� is what Osborne describes as 鈥渁 classic, in-the-wheelhouse 54-40 song.鈥�

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There鈥檚 also the breathtakingly intimate, candlelit ballad Hold My Kiss, which Osborne said wrote itself, much like One Gun, I Go Blind and Ocean Pearl.

Elsewhere on the new album, the hard-charging Can鈥檛 Hide My Love contrasts sharply with the jangly and deceptively sunny title track.

Those four songs, whittled from 25-odd demos, were produced, respectively, by Garth Richardson (see also 54-40鈥檚 Since When from 1998), Gavin Brown (Billy Talent, the Tragically Hip), Steven Drake (54-40鈥檚 Trusted by Millions from 1996) and veteran 54-40 accomplice Dave (Rave) Ogilvie, whose multiple credits include 2015鈥檚 acclaimed career retrospective, La Difference 鈥� A History Unplugged.

Despite input from contributors, Keep On Walking has a seamless vibe, held together equally by Osborne鈥檚 voice and panoramic lyrics and by 54-40鈥檚 honed-over-decades hivemind. In that sense, Keep On Walking is the quintessential 54-40 record: at once instantly familiar and dazzlingly new.

鈥淕avin has a system of recording that is tight and efficient but still leaves room for the magic that can happen spontaneously during recording,鈥� said Johnson.

鈥淪teven relies on a creative and open-ended dialogue between the artist and himself to propel the music to its destined place. Garth uses an old-school approach to achieve timeless and performance-oriented recordings. And Rave is what we鈥檇 call our fifth member, the ultimate facilitator. All ideas have potential when you are making a record with him.鈥�

The 琉璃神社 show will take place at teh Community Theatre.

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