Junkyard Poets are a six piece industrial percussive driven rock band from Sherwood Park, AB, Canada. Featuring the award winning songwriting talents of Jared Salte and Peter Mol, this indie sextuplet is generating a buzz like no other. Remember back in the old days when popular music was not so much about “genres” as much as it was about bands. And, back in those days, bands were about the individual players who got together in groups because they liked to make music. The endless combinations of the same band members spawned many popular acts, such as The Who and Bachman-Turner-Overdrive -- out of a lot of the same guys. Well Junkyard Poets is a throwback to (or perhaps a revolution of) the old ways of making bands. Junkyard Poets is composed of incredibly talented players whose repertoire ranges from full-bore rapcore a la Rage Against The Machine all the way down to well-orchestrated piano grooves that are reminiscent of bands like The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac. Now when you read that last sentence, you might have envisioned one of those horrible bands that think they can play multiple styles and honestly can’t. Junkyard Poets is not that band. When Junkyard Poets is playing rock, they rock out. When they play swing, it sounds like swing should. They inject songs with big band, rapcore, blues, and what sounds like movie soundtrack grandeur. Whatever they do, they do it right. Overall, Junkyard Poet’s “Rock, Pop, Roll” is a celebration of innovation, catchy, memorable tunes that are not bound by the newfound restrictions of genre and style.

And now for something completely different...Edmonton's Junkyard Poets offer their debut foray into their recording studio, Rock, Pop, Roll. Forgive the "Python" allusion, but if you're at all on the adventurous side, buying this CD certainly won't leave you feeling snake bitten. Junkyard Poet's principal songwriter and lead vocalist Jared Salte comes from storied stock. His dad, Break Forth Ministries founder, Arlen Salte, still ranks as one of Canada's most successful Christian artists with over a quarter million albums sold.
Growing up as the youngest of three offspring, Salte's musical exposure was broad. And so in smithing his own tunes, he's not afraid to draw from a myriad of influences. You'll find fragments of everything from old-fashioned gospel, hip hop, roots, jazz, Beatlesque-pop and blues to screamo hard-core on the CD.
Asked to peg the two-year-old group's sound and Salte comes up with "industrial blues rock." But I prefer to call it "Heinz 57 blender rock." It's experimental and fun, providing a little something for just about everyone but to enjoy the full 70-minute package, you'll need an appetite for edgier fare.
Fresh off winning top vocal honors at the Gospel Music Association's Immerse competition in Nashville this summer, the 18-year-old Salte now has a legion of industry folk pursuing him.
Meanwhile, Rock, Pop, Roll has Salte and five of his friends having a great time unleashing their raw, unadulterated creative energies. Among the tracks is a renamed version of big sister Linnea Salte's current radio single, Pockets Full Of Posies. Available for $12.97 from www.cdbaby.com and through iTunes.

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