by Josh O'Kane
When Partner cold-e-mailed demos to Grammy-winning producer and engineer Chris Shaw, admiring his past work with Ween, Shaw immediately thought of another band: Weezer. “I’m really big into ‘W’ bands,” he says by phone from Texas, chuckling, as tends to happen when Partner comes up in conversations.
Shaw engineered Weezer’s 1994 eponymous debut, a sea of crunchy guitars and eager themes that became one of the decade’s loudest alt-rock statements. He saw parallels in Partner, and happily agreed to mix Lost Time. “It was a real nineties thing,” he says. “The material is just ridiculously good. I found myself laughing most of the time because the lyrics were so great.”
That attitude has given them a growing list of admirers. Jay Ferguson of Sloan – who’s also worked with Shaw, because the world is always smaller than you think – was “blown away” when he got a sneak peek of Lost Time from band manager Mar Sellars. The nineties references keep piling on: Ferguson hears the Breeders meeting Nirvana. “It makes for a really exciting record,” he says. The riffs, the humour, the atmosphere: “It sounded like a hit record – like, a top-20 album.”
--taken from: The Globe and Mail (read more here)
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