Composed from a place of deep turmoil, lead singer Lucas Silveira began work on the Cliks’ second album following the highly successful tours behind sophomore release Snakehouse. The band’s incendiary live shows became the calling card by which they were known, and in short order, musical heroes Ian Astbury of the Cult and Cyndi Lauper hand-picked the band for their respective tours. The band picked up momentum and fans when Logo awarded them the NewNowNext Artist On the Brink Award which ultimately led to an appearance on teenybopper mecca TRL to discuss their plans for the future.

Despite themselves, the Cliks couldn’t help but make a record that made order out of tumult and sense out of turbulence. With pop hooks lacing the rock spines The Cliks are known for, the songs inhabit the specificity of the circumstances under which they were written, all the while appealing to broader audiences.

Armed with a battalion of garage-rock anthems for heartbreakers and the brokenhearted, they recruited producer Julius Butty, best known for helping hone the razor-sharp edge on albums by Canuck screamo heroes Alexisonfire and the more contemplative City and Colour, and headed to the studio to create what would become their rock-solid, spectacular debut LP, The Impatient Romantic. Hunter Valentine’s shimmering, serrated guitar riffs and galloping beats echoed off the quiet streets of rural Stoney Creek, Ontario. They synchronized handclaps over whiskey in backwater bars. They managed to capture every rapture, every rejection, every moment of redemption, every hapless last-call bar pickup, every lonely walk home on a freezing snowy night, every story of a great love gone off the rails… all of it on tape.