Grace Street Big Wreck

• 1 It Comes as No Surprise 04:17
• 2 One Good Piece of Me 04:01
• 3 Tomorrow Down 04:37
• 4 You Don't Even Know 03:52
• 5 Useless 05:17
• 6 A Speedy Recovery 07:38
• 7 Motionless 05:31
• 8 Digging In 05:03
• 9 The Receiving End 03:21
• 10 Floodgates 05:32
• 11 The Arborist 05:46
• 12 Skybunk Marché 07:01
• 13 All My Fears on You 06:14
• Total Runtime 01:08:10

Info for Grace Street

Grace Street is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Big Wreck, released on February 3, 2017. The album's lead single "One Good Piece Of Me" was released on November 4, 2016, following several teasers on the band's official Instagram page. The single proved more successful than the previous album's lead single "Ghosts", charting high on two different rock charts in Canada in its first week of airplay.[2] The teasers were 40-second clips of instrumental music, which put together make a 7-minute epic which later was revealed as "Skybunk Marché", Big Wreck's first and only instrumental to date. Since the album's full release, the teasers have been removed from social media. The album was officially announced on November 18, 2016. Grace Street is also the first Big Wreck album to be released on vinyl. The album was released internationally on February 3, 2017. This is also the final album to feature co-lead and rhythm guitarist Paulo Neta before his departure, a month before the album's release.

"The Canadian-American alt-prog collective's fifth full-length outing, Grace Street delivers a heady mix of the accessible and the labyrinthine; a smartly structured, skillfully executed set of left-field radio hits with cosmic aspirations. Anchored by Ian Thornley's mellifluous voice, which pairs the elastic falsetto of Coldplay's Chris Martin with the seismic power of Peter Gabriel, the 13-track LP, despite its nearly 70-minute runtime, never forgets that strong songwriting is the fulcrum on which even the most adventurous run or clever time or key change finds equilibrium. Whether it's the knotty "Tomorrow Down," with its propulsive backbeat and Floyd-meets-Zeppelin chorus, the funky, Stones-ian "You Don't Even Know," the goose bump-inducing acoustic ballad "Useless," or the ripping lead single "One Good Piece of Me," the latter of which is a perfect rendering of soaring alt-rock and Asia-inspired pop smarts, Grace Street has a little something for everyone." (James Christopher Monger, AMG)

Ian Thornley, vocals, lead guitar, keyboards
Brian Doherty, rhythm guitar
Paulo Neta, lead & rhythm guitar, backing vocals
David McMillan, bass
Chuck Keeping, drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Alain Johannes, cigfiddle on "The Receiving End"
Casey Marshall, additional background vocals on "All My Fears on You" and "Digging In"
Tyler Tasson, additional background vocals on "A Speedy Recovery"

Recorded July 26 – November 29, 2016 at The Orange Lounge, The Farm Studios, Noble Street Studios
Produced by Ian Thornley, Garth Richardson

Digitally remastered

Big Wreck
was formed in Boston in the early 90’s by Toronto-native (guitars / vocals) Ian Thornley and Americans Brian Doherty (guitars), Forrest Williams (drums) and Dave Henning (bass), students at the Berkley School of Music. Their 1997 debut album, In Loving Memory, is certified double platinum in Canada and featured the chart topping singles “Blown Wide Open,” “That Song” and “The Oaf”.

In 2002, the band broke up following the release of their sophomore album, The Pleasure and The Greed, after which Ian Thornley formed the band Thornley who also enjoyed rock radio success with several singles.

In 2010, Brian Doherty filled in on guitar at a Thornley show and shortly thereafter, he and Ian started working on new material that would be, once again, christened Big Wreck. Their first single as a reunited Big Wreck, “Albatross,” became the band’s first #1 single at Rock radio in Canada. Since then, they have released three new Big Wreck albums (Albatross – 2012; Ghosts – 2014; Grace Street – 2017). In the winter of 2018 Big Wreck began recording their sixth studio album with producer Erik Ratz. It was during the recording that Doherty was diagnosed with cancer which tragically took his life this past Spring after the new album was completed. Big Wreck’s latest album will be released later this summer followed by extensive touring. The release of the album was preceded by the Top 5 Rock Radio hit “Locomotive.”

This album contains no booklet.