The Wilderness of Manitoba. What a name for a band. Hailing from Toronto, these makers of chamber folk have already rocked (or should that be folked?) their own country and the US with debut album ‘When You Left The Fire’, and now they’re hitting UK soil to release it here too.

Their live expeditions over in the US have so far included support tours with Cloud Cult, Rasputina and Aimee Mann, and they’ve already toured here in the UK too, playing End Of The Road and London’s Camden Crawl in 2010.

The English equivalent is probably a Willkommen Collective band like The Miserable Rich (quite possibly the UK’s premier purveyors of chamber folk), but there’s something tangibly quirky here within The Wilderness of Manitoba, giving them an edge that suggests they’re from a land further afield. This is very un-English, honest, catchy and, well, Canadian.

Watch the video below for a taster of the forthcoming album in the form of lead track ‘Orono Park’. It’s very pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njlRaSrDlz4