Big Wreck, Version 7.1

“IF I’M GOING for a real fuzzed-out, messed-up sound and it just sounds like we’ve used it before, it’s like, ‘Okay, we have to trip this up somehow.’”

This is Big Wreck singer-guitarist Ian Thornley digging into the tones behind , the first of three new EP’s from the long-running, Toronto-based hard rock troupe. While, certainly, the five-song collection homes in on Big Wreck’s familiar bedrock — think mammoth, Zep-sized riff-play and vocalist Thornley’s room-rattling tenor — the guitarist nevertheless brought new color to the canvas this time around. Mid-way through recording, for instance, Suhr sent Thornley