The Trews fourth full-length studio album, Hope & Ruin, due on Bumstead Records on April 12, is a level-raising evolution for the Toronto-based rock band that has amassed two gold records, ten top-10 singles and 800-plus concerts in the last seven years. Recorded live-off-the-floorwith co-producer Gard Sinclair, they captured lightning in a bottie, resulting in a sound that is raw, electric and igniting. From the trippy atmospheriCS of "Dreaming Man" to the harmony-filled minstrelsy closer 'You Gotta Let Me," rhyth- mical patter "One By One," full-throttle rocker "People of the Deer," soft rumination "Stay With Me" and buoyant first single, "Hope & Ruin," the 12-song album has a feel that can only come from four guys that have played to- gether for 14 years.