Odd Marshall is that strange guy in the backwoods. His songs speak of world travels, but it kind of feels like he’s come out of nowhere. Don Kerr has produced his upcoming debut album, Sand & Glue, with Mike O’Brien on lead guitar and Jason Haberman playing bass. If they’re not known as Canada’s ‘Wrecking Crew,’ they should be. 

Sand & Glue is a collection of songs with a wide range of moods. From start to finish, the album takes listeners around the world with a strong back beat and infectious hooks. The record’s latest single, “Nobody Wins,” follows Odd Marshall’s songwriting themes of “losing!” as he describes. Though negative in connotation, the song is a cathartic exercise in the frustration life presents us, and a refreshingly open work. A refreshingly open work, “Nobody Wins” features Blue Rodeo’s piano player, Mike Boguski, on keys.

The song covers three categories of failure. Personal failure. Relationship failure. Global failure. The chorus – not too subtly – deflects blame. Like we all do. The “no one” in the song is not so subtly me. – Odd Marshall