Barrie has excellent strip clubs, but other than getting a beer and a lapdance on a highway break, there’s not a whole lot that Barrie can claim for itself. It’s hard for a town like this to cultivate a mid-size local music scene, because, unlike Hamilton or Guelph, it lacks both a university and geographic sanity. Fox Jaws are a quartet from strip-club-central, and At Odds, their second album, is a pastiche of CBC favourites, with threads from identifiable scenes and musical traditions across Canada. The family folk of the McGarrigles is present, as is the stuff of Jon-Rae Fletcher; Carleigh Atkins’ plaintive vocals recall almost-Canadian Neko Case and Kathleen Edwards (even rougher vocal edges suggest ’80s hair-metal bands from The Gasworks); the atmospherics of Great Lake Swimmers and The Besnard Lakes compete with Eastern kitchen-party stompers. Since “Canada” means too much geography and not enough history, perhaps Fox Jaws will benefit our ever-evolving national project of land-spanning music.