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6.5
- Band:
Crown Lands - Duration: 00:28:44
- Available since: 08/07/2025
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Inside out
The Crown Lands are certainly one of the most interesting bands among the new levers in the progressive rock/hard rock field and, with the homonymous debut and the subsequent “fearless”, they have received a fair success, especially on the other side of the ocean, so much so as to deserve, for musical affinity and geographical origin, the comparison with the Rush.
In common with the illustrious compatriots, the duo composed of the singer/drummer Cody Bowles and the guitarist/bass player/keyboard player Kevin Comeau has a proposal made of incendiary riffs, energy and dynamism, and this is what we expect from the third studio album which, apparently, is being completed; In the meantime, the Canadians have decided to cheer the wait with two EPs: “Ritual I”, published in July, and “Ritual II”, which instead will see the light in August.
The twenty -eight minutes of music that occupy the first output go to explore a different side of the personality of the ivare band: five instrumental songs characterized by the use of synthesizers, percussion and flute, between world music, folk and a thin layer of psychedelia.
The structures are simple, you can breathe a relaxed climate and the need to connect to nature through samples that bring to the pulse of the crickets or to the rain. The atmospheres are delicate, dreamy, the subdued sounds, so much so that it requires a mental state aligned to be able to enter the harmony, while the only jump out of the rhythmic level is represented by the intervention of the Didgeridoo and the electric piano in “The Storm”. Everything flows with a pleasant effect, even without leaving traces.
A creative outlet forced by the impossibility of entering the studio during the pandemic period, when everything seemed to have stopped: it is certainly not what we would have expected from the Crown Lands and not even nothing indicative about the path that the band will travel in the future but, provided that it is simply interpreted as a break with a deafening noise that usually surrounds us, listening to “ritual i” can prove to be comforting.
In a few days it will be interesting to find out what the second part of this extemporaneous project will reserve for us.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
