TORONTO -- Nearly four years ago, Toronto's k-os released the
exuberantly titled "Yes!" to a discouragingly reserved response.
After each of his previous two records (2004's "Joyful
Rebellion" and 2006's "Atlantis: Hymns for Disco") went
platinum, "Yes!" failed to even reach gold certification, nor
did any of its singles ascend past the 98th slot on the Canadian
singles chart.  K-os had worked for a year on the album. And the
chilly reaction to its release certainly wasn't lost on him.  "I
put my record out and no one really cared," he said in a recent
interview from a lavish Toronto hotel suite. "If I can be honest
-- I'm like an honest guy, right -- I think I was a little
frustrated by that. That I had this album 'Yes!' that had all
these things that were cool but it was a different time....
"Sometimes something just doesn't register with people. When you
spend a year on a record and that doesn't register, you kind of
make an artist go crazy.  "But going crazy is the perfect thing
for us," he adds, a smil