The Sam Roberts Band has earned its reputation live as well as on record, touring extensively in support of Chemical City. They are poised to hit the road again for an extended U.S. tour the day Love at the End of the World hits the shelves. As Jonathan Perry of The Boston Globe notes, Sam performs “with such focused energy and urgency, it sounds as if his very life depends on it.”
This record was written and recorded between January and October 2007 in our hometown of Montreal, Canada. For our previous albums, we traveled far and wide – from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Africa, to Byron Bay, Australia – feeling that the further we got away from home, the easier the inspiration for new songs was going to strike.
The original plan for Love At The End Of The World was to record it on a houseboat while floating down the Ganges. As it turned out, my wife and I had our first child, a little girl, at the beginning of 2007 and so instead, this became the first album we made in Montreal. As a songwriter, this forced me to reexamine the place I had known and lived in all my life with a different lens, looking under rocks I would otherwise have passed right on by. I wanted to try to see clearly the ways in which people had figured out to coexist in the tight quarters of the city streets. To reveal the friction and the tension which try to pull us apart, but also the moments of peace and redemption, defying the odds and keeping us all together.
This is what Love At The End Of The World struggles with, right from the first note – how we push ourselves to the edge of the precipice, hell-bent on self-destruction, only to glance to each side and see that we are not alone, that the capacity for love exists in all of us, and can save us.
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