"After spending nearly five years on the road promoting 2006's Close to Paradise and 2009's Polaris Music Prize-nominated Wooden Arms, Patrick Watson and his band retreated to the Montreal-based singer/songwriter's apartment to craft the appropriately titled Adventures in Your Own Backyard. Spare, haunting, and emotionally charged, Watson's fourth outing feels a little voyeuristic, like walking in on a character in the midst of a moonlit soliloquy. Listeners willing to devote an hour -- rather than a rushed five-minute scan of the first 30 seconds of each cut -- to this unassuming little gem will likely want to revisit it again and again." -- All Music Guide

Track Listing
1 Lighthouse
2 Blackwind
3 Step Out for a While
4 The Quiet Crowd
5 Into Giants
6 Morning Sheets
7 Words in the Fire
8 Things We Do
9 Strange Crooked Road
10 Noisy Sunday
11 Adventures in Your Own Backyard
12 Swimming Pools