The Illuminati's Full-Length Debut CD Set For June 2006 Release

On Borrowed Time, the full-length debut from Toronto boogie-rockers THE ILLUMINATI, will be released in America on June 28, 2006. The trio – who just wrapped up a U.S. tour alongside The Hellacopters and Nebula that included a stop at South By Southwest – will continue touring before and after the album’s release.

THE ILLUMINATI have recently received extensive critical acclaim for their self-titled EP, a six-track, 16-minute gem released last fall. The new issue of Revolver praises its “swinging roadhouse rock,” while Outburn salutes their “rock anthems infused with jazz n’ blues parts, as well as rip-roarin’ solos.”

The U.S. pressing of On Borrowed Time will include the music video for album track “Goin’ Down,” as well as a bonus audio and video track culled from the EP, “On My Way Back Home…Again” (MP3). In its review, All Music Guide calls the song – a staple of the group’s live set – “probably the defining piece on the EP, a rowdy and hell- raising tune that fuses rock, prog and hillbilly.”

The Illuminati EP was only a proverbial glimpse through the keyhole, however – a mere hint of what this band was capable. On Borrowed Time finds The Illuminati’s doctrine of musicality fully realized, with profound and melodic compositions hurled headlong into visceral, even sleazy, three-minute rock epics. Sneaky details – moments of metal-blues fusion, impeccably written noodley jazz codas – recall a time before today’s genre-bound constraints. Melodic and exploratory yet fast and mean, the group offers a refreshing return to pretense-free virtuosity, conjuring wild specters of rock n’ roll’s greatest legacies – and giving BW&BK reason to say that “the buzz is certifiably justified.”

It’s time to return to a sense of wonder. It’s time for The Illuminati.