Hope & Ruin is the fourth full-length studio album by Canadian rock band the Trews. It was released in Canada on April 12, 2011, and it peaked at number nine on the Canadian Albums Chart.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
The Trews
Colin MacDonald – lead vocals, guitar, keys
John-Angus MacDonald – guitars, backing vocals
Jack Syperek – bass, backing vocals
Sean Dalton – drums and percussion, backing vocals
Additional musicians
Jeff Heisholt – keys
Gord Sinclair – harmonica ("Love Is The Real Thing"), bass ("The World, I Know"), acoustic guitar ("Dreaming Man") Erika Nielson – cello ("If You Wanna Start Again" and "You Gotta Let Me In") Kate MacDonald and Peggy Dalton – backing vocals ("You Gotta Let Me In")
Production
Aaron Holmberg – engineer
Nyles Spencer – assistant engineer
Mike Fraser – mixing (The Warehouse Studio)