“I visited Neil when he was ill,” says Alex Lifeson. It’s a highly emotive piece of music to honour a man deeply missed by the rock community at large, and even more so by those who were lucky enough to know him. The album closer, Western Sunset, which was penned by Alex Lifeson in tribute to his dear friend Neil Peart. There are some heavier songs too, like Enemy, and then tracks like Kabul Blues, that sound completely different to anything else.” “It makes them feel different and more honest. “One of my favourite things about these songs is the intimacy of them,” reveals Maiah Wynne. When we say she’s special, it’s because she’s really fucking special!” I’ve never had that kind of inspiration working with another musician. After hearing her vocals on Never Said I Love You, I felt so excited. “ She was able to bring this whole new ethereal thing through her sense of melody on tracks like Liar and Look Inside. “Maiah became my muse,” continues Alex Lifeson. Its industrial beats, driving fuzz bass and atmospheric guitars concoct a seductive swirl indeed – thrilling in ways closer to the darker art rock of Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle than anything these musicians have been known for prior. The album’s first single, Liar, is out now. “When I played what she’d done back to the others they were like, ‘Who is this crazy talented person?!’” All things considered she is a star in the making… “I sent over an early version of the song Shadow ,” explains Andy Curran. Her haunting melodies and soul-baring intensity is – by the admission of her own bandmates – what truly brought this music to life. However, it was only when singer Maiah Wynne became involved that this truly started to feel like a band destined to go somewhere. Lifeson himself is proudly aware of how little of it crosses over with the band that made him famous. Its 11 tracks – which ricochet between various shades of alternative, experimental and synth rock – throw surprises at every turn, twisting dark melodies against contemporary pop hooks. The new band, also featuring Coney Hatch founder/bassist Andy Curran, accomplished producer and engineer Alfio Annibalini and singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne, will be releasing their self-titled debut album on April 8 via Kscope. Over the last few years Lifeson has been focusing on a new project that, no matter how well-acquainted you are with his discography, will undoubtedly shatter all seeds of expectation and blow the mind. His influence can be heard on countless bands around the world, from indie shoegaze and math rock to heavy metal and beyond. As a founding member of Rush, he’s been able to explore more musical ground than just about any other guitar player out there – taking rock to new progressive heights throughout the decades and always in the most wildly inventive of ways. There’s some beautiful guitar that he’s played all over it – but full transparency, it’s not Rush and it’s not Coney Hatch.Alex Lifeson is no stranger to the concept of evolution. “I think there’s a lot of Alex Lifeson in these. In a previous conversation with UCR, Curran described Envy of None’s music as sounding like “Massive Attack with a little bit of some electronic stuff with Nine Inch Nails influences, with this beautiful, fragile, sweet voice and some very, very dark heavy sounds.” He also cautioned not to compare the group to any of the members’ previous work. Hopefully late summer, early fall we might have something. The industry is so, so very different than it was certainly 10 years ago, never mind last year. We're in a good place, but it's very challenging. "We're just working on that part of it,” he admitted. I'm really excited about that."ĭespite his enthusiasm, Lifeson was vague regarding an exact timeline for the album’s release. “So we've basically done an album's worth of material that we hope to release sometime soon. “Just a fabulous, fabulous voice and a really smart songwriter and vocal performer,” Lifeson proclaimed. Curran even spent some time working for Rush’s management, before stepping away from the role in 2019.Īfter initially collaborating on the aforementioned early tracks, the musicians recruited vocalist Maiah Wynne. The band previously opened for Rush, with Curran having remained in contact with Lifeson over the years. Curran is best-known as the lead singer and bassist of Canadian hard rock group Coney Hatch.
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