Every year, if you are lucky, there is at least one album that catches you, effects you in some way.  Perhaps it is one that you have been waiting impatiently for, the latest album of your favourite artist, or it might be one that catches you by surprise, completely changing how you feel about an artist.  There were a few such albums for me in 2011 and Sam Roberts Band's "Collider" was one that completely caught me off guard.  I knew of Sam Roberts, I knew his hits and liked them well enough but his latest release made me a fan.  There is a groove to the album that you can't deny from the heavy bass lines and driving percussion to the jazziness brought in by the saxophone.  The album still has Roberts' sharp, honest and poetic lyrics but for me there is a soul to it that I didn't catch from his earlier work.  So while I think that you should take a listen to a number of the tracks such as The Last Crusade, Without a Map, Graveyard Shift, Twist the Knife (the whole album really!) I will leave you with the one that got in to my bones.  Enjoy!