Vancouver’s Hardball are ready to take you on a grunge journey of dirty riffs and speedy shredding when they hit the road across Canada in support of their debut self-titled album which is now available via Spotify and Bandcamp. The ten tracks deliver a heavier, punkier version of modern grunge with huge-sounding drums and heavy layered guitars. Lyrically, vocalist and guitarist Scott Budgie (Poles) says it helps him to think of the most distressed or agitated he’s ever felt in his life and channels those feelings of utter frustration and confusion into his writing. There’s often some absurdity in there too as he thinks laughing at things that are too terrible to face is a coping mechanism for a lot of people. Artistically, the album covers a lot of different but related ...