Last year Crown Lands played the after-party at a Formula 1 Grand Prix, at the personal behest of Bahrain’s Prince Salman. “He’s the coolest guy ever,” says the band’s guitarist/bassist/keyboard player Kevin Comeau. “He’s really into rock music.
We’d toured with Greta Van Fleet, and I guess Prince Salman reached out to their manager to ask if he knew any other new interesting rock bands. He watched our Odyssey live performance video, and took a chance on us. Nick Mason was in the audience. Our song The Oracle is a fourteen-minute epic with a lot of Floyd in it, and the whole time I was just like: ‘Do it for Nick, man! Do it for Nick!’ It was amazing.”
Twenty-something duo Crown Lands derive much from Pink Floyd on Fearless – their second, tune-freighted, none-moreprog album – but it’s fellow Canadians Rush who remain their North Star. It’s not a stretch to say that Crown Lands are to Rush what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zeppelin. When Classic Rock moots the comparison, singer/drummer Cody Bowles laughs loudly. “That’s totally fair. I love that! We get the Greta Van Fleet comparisons. But they’re not necessarily prog.”
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