You're walking alone, your mind's wandering, thinking of nothing in particular, then BAM. "All my anger fell away and there I sat to think an hour or so on the war-torn colonnade." It's about enlightenment: "the feeling of a Eureka moment. "All along the Rue des Champs, on a sea of high-planed dreams," sings Nick on 'Champs'. You've bought pizza, a case of beer and everything's packed.Īs expected, none of your friends show up to help and you're left schlepping boxes alone all day, getting a bit too drunk," the band explains. 'Nothing' meanwhile is "about moving on a beautiful, sunny day. "It's Seinfeld, but what the hell isn't?" says Nick, adding they "pull a bit from everywhere." Completed by live drummer Adam White and live guitarist Scott Boudreau, Mauno's Rough Master is a journal of "the kind of music that's churning in our minds when we're not focused on grocery lists." Opener 'Reeling' sets the tone: a gentle lament at growing old that descends into a loose yet lush release before the chaos of 'Manitoba'. Over the course of Rough Master it strays from twisting grunge-pop on 'Again', to a breezy lilt on 'Champs', to piano ambience ('Pulses') and string-accompanied haze ('Reeling') elsewhere.īut then, what do you expect when Eliza has a background in classical cello and old R&B, while Nick boasts a record collection jammed with choral and folk? The result is an album that sounds like a windows-rolled-down summer road trip with the cast of Seinfeld.Įlaine doesn't want to listen to music, George is very focused on the road, Kramer is sporadically buzzing through his iPod listening to half-songs from every genre possible, and Jerry is reading whilst eating spicy Cheetos. I arrived here on a failed hitch-hiking trip and just keep getting drawn back." Rough Master, the group's smart, intricate new album, has at least this in common with the city where it was forged.įull of familiar and charming shimmery guitar-and less-familiar, somewhat absurd stories written over rueful meals in empty apartments-Rough Master is a record you too will just keep getting drawn back into.įormed in September 2014, Mauno - pronounced Mao-no, and named after bassist Eliza Niemi's adamantly unmusical Finnish grandfather - have a wandering sound that refuses to be pinned down. "At times, it's really boring, which I find useful for writing songs-not being distracted. "Halifax is a weird little town," says frontman Nick Everett of the Canadian peninsula they call home, where life unfolds in a slow-drift of tiny moments never more than a stone's throw from the sea. Of Reimer’s 28 career NHL shutouts, 11 have come with the Maple Leafs, seven have come with the Sharks, seven with the Panthers and three with the Hurricanes.F boredom really does breed creativity, then Nova Scotia weirdo pop-rock sophisticates Mauno must be four intensely bored individuals. He previously had 49 saves in a 5-0 Toronto Maple Leafs win over the Ottawa Senators on February 4, 2012, 43 saves in a 4-0 Maple Leafs win over the Edmonton Oilers on October 29, 2013, 46 saves in a 3-0 Florida Panthers win over the Boston Bruins on March 15, 2018, and 41 saves in a 2-0 Carolina Hurricanes win over the Los Angeles Kings on January 11, 2020. This was the fifth time in Reimer’s career that he recorded a minimum of 40 saves in posting a shutout. ![]() Reimer’s two prior shutouts in 2022-23 came in a 3-0 Sharks win over the Philadelphia Flyers on October 23 (30 saves) and in a 4-0 Sharks win over the Seattle Kraken on February 20 (26 saves). He has a goals against average of 3.31, a save percentage of. This season, Reimer has a record of 11 wins, 18 regulation losses, and eight losses in extra time. Offensively for the Sharks on Tuesday, Noah Gregor of Beaumont, Alberta led the Sharks in scoring with two points (one goal and one assist). He made 16 saves in the first period, 10 saves in the second period, and 15 saves in the third period. He accomplished the feat in a 3-0 Sharks win over the Winnipeg Jets at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. San Jose Sharks goaltender James Reimer of Morweena, Manitoba recorded his 28th National Hockey League shutout on Tuesday. ![]() James Reimer (Mark Mauno, Wikimedia Commons)
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