Foregoing the dominant professions of area residents, namely copper thieveryand crystal meth cookery, life-long Bridgeview resident and guitar virtuoso Louie Anyos along with band mates Darryl Greer (Bass), Pablo Stolowicz (Drums)and Victor Escoto (Percussion), cook up something much less lethal but nearlyas intense. The instrumental prog-rock quartet known as Trophy Wife has carved out quite a niche for itself in Vancouver’s musical landscape. Following up their 2009 full-length self-titled debut album,the group has just released a new EP entitled “Bridgeview Hymns,” a six-songode to Anyos’ hometown beneath the towering shadows of the Port Man Bridge where the air is laced with the smell of fecal matter and urine, laden in the standing ditch waters that form a kind of moat around the band’s compound. One of the few properties that wasn’t expropriated for the construction of a new trucking route, the eighth-acre property in a Fraser River flood-zone has housed the band since day one as they developed their multi-cultural,genre-bending blend of rock, metal, blues, funk and latin music. A monthly mainstay at Vancouver’s Railway Club, the band’s high-energy performances consistently drop jaws andthe audience is as diverse as the group’s tunes.

“Shovel Uppercut,” the EP’s opening track is a three-movement opus of anger, violence and insanity, followed by the Santana-esque second track “Mystery Gristle.” “Just Anguish,” the third track,opens with a haunting bass-driven intro, made more melancholy by Anyos’ volumeswells and lead work with hints of David Gilmour-like phrasing. Up next is the7-minute plus funk and blues tinged “Runaway Brain.” Rounding out the disc arethe aptly-named “Couldn’t Stand the Weather Report on the Misty Mountains,”and “Six Chambers and One’s Full of Freedom.”

Bridgview Hymns and the band’sfirst CD is available on iTunes, Amazon and other online retailers.