Canada’s revered singer-songwriter Matt Andersen has announced the release of his eleventh solo studio album, The Hammer & The Rose, out April 25th via Sonic Records. On the album, a veritable garden of heart, the New Brunswick-born musician opts for the kind of tender, moving folk and soul arrangements one might associate with flowers, trading in the hard steel edges of his heavy blues riffs for delicate compositions and honey-dripping sweetness. The gently swinging title track provides an elegant metaphor for the differences and push-and-pull relationship between the head and the heart: the head wants to blaze a trail, prioritize practicality, and motor through things, while the heart wants to slow down, feel things, and feel good. After seeing one of the shows Andersen played on tou...