Case has always considered herself a Canadian, despite the lack of official paperwork. She went to school in Vancouver and played the drums for Maow, a local punk band. She’s played numerous shows with Blue Rodeo’s recurring Starlight Picnic, which used to be held on Toronto’s historic Fort York site. To this day, her albums are released on Bloodshot in the U.S., and Vancouver’s own Mint Records in Canada. She’s even joked repeatedly about the lengths she’d have to go to to become a Canadian citizen for real. So it makes sense that Canadian Amp would come out; it’s Case’s love letter to her adopted country. 

The EP, distributed only on tour and through her record label websites (although I found a copy in a Toronto record store; shhh…), is a short and sweet affair consisting mostly of covers. “In California” was originally penned by Lisa Marr of the now-defunct Vancouver band Cub, who can probably be best described as cuddle-core (on a side note: I don’t know where I picked up that term, but I feel slightly dirty). It’s a wistful track, and the opening lines fit perfectly with the EP’s raison d’etre: “In California, I dream of snow / in all the places we used to go.”