Smile & Wave by The Headstones

Smile & Wave was the third album from Headstones, the punk-charged rock band out of Kingston, Ontario, and it came out on MCA between Teeth and Tissue and Nickels for Your Nightmares. It's a record built for the kind of mid-sized rooms the band routinely packed: loud, lean and pointed, with songs that go looking for serious and touchy subjects instead of steering around them.

It was a singles machine, too, sending out "Cubically Contained", "Smile & Wave", "And" and "Without a Sound" one after another. Canada took the hint: the album went gold there and had moved 100,000 copies by April 2000, part of a run that kept Headstones among the country's best-selling bands for two decades.

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