RUSH THROUGH TIME

Rush fans rejoice! Crown Lands are back with their second full-length album, Fearless, and it’s a treasure trove of quality musicianship, complex time signatures and sci-fi-inspired lyrics that turn the prog dial up to 11. The duo with a huge sound reveal why they’ve ditched their trademark blues rock in favour of carrying the torch for their Canadian musical heroes.

Dave Everley

On January 8, 2020, Crown Lands’ Cody Bowles and Kevin Comeau were due to fly from their homes just outside Toronto to Nashville to hook up with former Rush producer Nick Raskulinecz to finish off a song they’d been working on for the past three years. This was a huge deal on several levels. The Canadian duo’s Rush fandom goes bone deep and the track, a shifting, seven-minute mini-epic titled Context: Fearless Pt 1, was both homage to the Canadian prog icons in spirit and sound, and an evolutionary step away from the White Stripes/Rival Sons-inspired blues rock with which Crown Lands had made their name. They’d even started recording the song three years earlier with original Rush producer Terry Brown, and now the guy who had worked on the…

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