New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Juno Award-winning, powerhouse rock duo Crown Lands - Cody Bowles (vocals and drums) and
Kevin Comeau (guitar, bass, and keys) - celebrate songs from their emergent discography with the announcement of their first ever live album, Odyssey Volume 1 set to release on December 2 through Spinefarm Records and Universal Music. The nine-track album was recorded live off the floor at Universal Music's new performance space, The Academy at 80A and includes tracks from their self-titled debut album (2020), their sophomore EP Rise Over Run (2017) and the recently released White Buffalo (2021), see the full track listing below. The performance was filmed and will premiere to a global audience as a virtual concert today at 2:00PM EST / 7:00PM GMT hosted across Louder Sound platforms including Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Louder and Prog Magazine.
Odyssey Volume 1, the record and concert, allows fans to experience Crown Lands music in its rawest form while showcasing the masterful musicianship of the duo have perfected to make their grandiose sound. Conceptualizing the project, the band drew inspiration from some of their most idolized records, explaining, "the art of capturing a pure performance and pressing it on vinyl mostly unedited is something lost in this era of quantized beats and harmonically perfect (and sterile) virtual instruments. Some of the most important records in our lives would probably not be able to be released today. Allman Brothers at Filmore East, The Who Live at Leeds and Rush's All the World's A Stage set the bar for what a band can do!" Crown Lands continue, "we wanted to establish ourselves as a true live rock band early on in our career the way those guys did. We decided we'd also film it and release the show as a complete document of who are while we were at it. There are missed cues, bum notes and solos that go on too long. Exactly the way it should be."
The 1-hour Louder Sound virtual concert kicks off the Ontario headlining tour dates of The Big Wave Tour which begins in Waterloo on November 26 at Maxwell's
Music Hall while also giving fans across the world an opportunity to experience Crown Lands music live. See the list of Ontario tour dates below.
Crown Lands cement themselves as a live band with Odyssey Volume 1 and hope to bring the experience to fans they've not yet reached, explaining "Odyssey Volume 1 is our small contribution to the pantheon of live records. Unfortunately, we couldn't film & record it with the energy of a live audience due to covid but that makes a live document even more important. Many people have missed out on their first concert this year so we wanted to bring it to them."
Odyssey Volume 1 Track Listing:
Inner Light
Right Way Back
Context: Fearless Pt. 1
Mountain
End of The Road
White Buffalo
The Witching Hour (Electric Witch)
Sun Dance
The Oracle
"THE BIG WAVE" 2021 TOUR DATES:
Friday, November 26, 2021 - Waterloo, ON - Maxwell's
Music Hall
Saturday, November 27, 2021 - Oshawa, ON -Biltmore Theatre
Sunday, November 28, 2021 - Hamilton, ON - Bridgeworks
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - London, ON - Rum Runners
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - Toronto, ON - The Axis Club
Friday, December 3, 2021- Ottawa, ON - Bronson Centre
Saturday, December 4, 2021 - Montreal, QC - Petit Campus
Crown Lands' self-titled debut album, produced by Grammy-nominated Dave Cobb, was released in the summer of 2020, to widespread acclaim from the likes of Guitar World, Kerrang!, and American Songwriter; coverage from the BBC and the CBC. Crown Lands then stormed into 2021 with two songs, "Context: Fearless Pt. 1" and "Right Way Back," that returned them to their prog-rock roots and pointed the way to a limitless future, while also connecting the group to their legendary countrymen, Rush, after working with three prolific Rush producers - Terry Brown, Nick Raskulinecz and
David Bottrill - on the tracks. "Context: Fearless Pt. 1" and "Right Way Back" premiered with Rolling Stone and were named "Rockest Record of the Week" on BBC
Radio 1. Most recently, Crown Lands received their first Juno Award nominations, for Rock Album of the Year and taking home the award for Breakthrough Group of the Year. The band also signed a deal with Spinefarm Records, which will be working with Universal
Music to support their upcoming releases in the U.S. and U.K.
Hailing from Southwestern Ontario, powerhouse Canadian rock duo Crown Lands are a startling fresh jolt of energy, making music that brings together a range of influences from folk and blues to psychedelic prog rock. The group's name is indicative of their musical ambitions: "Crown Land" is territorial area belonging to the monarch - or, as Bowles (whose own heritage is half Mi'kmaw, an Indigenous tribe from Nova Scotia) puts it: "Crown Land is stolen land and we are reclaiming it."
