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Crown Lands
We were getting excited to welcome Canada’s hottest, fast-rising rock duo Crown Lands to the UK early last year. But then… well, you know what happened then. Now they’re back – and they’ve turned into Rush. Okay so that hasn’t actually happened, but there’s a helluva lot in their deliciously ambitious new single Context: Fearless Pt. 1 that makes us think of those prog luminaries: the title, the grand scale, the vocals, the progressive oomph, the Mandalorian-esque video (check it out on YouTube). And that’s certainly no bad thing. Taken from their hotly anticipated forthcoming album (produced in Nashville by Rush/Foo Fighters compadre Nick Rasculinecz), it’s bold, bombastic and rather beautiful.