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The Minus 5

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The last time we heard from the Minus 5, the news wasnt entirely good. Leader Scott McCaughey suffered a major stroke in 2017, and in 2019, he released Stroke Manor, an album that was primarily written while he was in the hospital and struggling to teach his brain how to communicate again. While McCaughey had recovered enough to record the LP, it did invite the question of whether this great rock & roll heart was going to be functioning at full force in the future. The worries proved to be groundless, as McCaughey was recording and touring again before long with the Baseball Project, the No Ones, and the Young Fresh Fellows, and 2025s Oar On, Penelope!, the first proper Minus 5 album since Stroke Manor, is a thoroughly pleasing example of what he does best. As always, the Minus 5 is McCaughey and however many of his friends are on hand to go into the studio, and this time out, along with his usu