I have it on good advice that Joel Plaskett Emergency is a staple of Canadian sub-genre of rock known as dock rock (is having a song titled “Harbour Boys” an acknowledgement of this fact, I wonder??). At various points Scrappy Happiness reminded me of J. Geils Band, Tom Petty, a mellow version of Everclear and (I’m being extremely charitable here) Nick Lowe. It had it’s moments and was well-produced but overall, this wasn’t really my bag. Stream every track from the album on Joel’s site here or make it easy for yourself and subscribe to RDIO and check it out in one easy-to-use player below: