The Trouts are two brothers addicted to rock, so you’ll understand we immediately felt a kinship. Jérôme and Samuel Duchaine, from Quebec, Canada, have released their sophomore album, titled Hooked To The Woods. They kick off with the instrumental title track, featuring an uplifting trumpet, followed by nine vocal songs that give the rock genre a broad interpretation.

The lyrics feel like a late-night confession—honesty about burnout, self-sabotage, and a refusal to fully give up—with imperfect people chasing freedom, learning who they are by surviving who they’ve been: “Everything can’t be okay // But it’s all right” (from Dancing My Own Way). Bathed in warm, sun-kissed grooves, the melodic songwriting lands with an easy, unforced charm.

Hooked To The Woods—mixed and mastered by Luc Tellier—is out digitally and on vinyl LP via Les Disques La Cabane.

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