Andy Shauf perform ’Wendell Walker’ for The Line of Best Fit

As one of the most outstanding talents we’ve heard in quite some time, Canada’s Andy Shauf offers up a timeless mix of melody, voice and lyrics that as comfortable as it is impressive. The Saskatchewan-born singer/songwriter began playing in bands at the age of 14 and dropped three EPs before he hit his twenties. The mature-before-his-years cliche might very well have been invented for Shauf and long-player The Bearer of Bad News engenders the same feelings in us as Fleet Foxes’ first record. “I think spi