Back with ENVY OF NONE PROG Magazine - March 2022, Issue #127 |
Rush star Alex Lifeson returns this year with new four-piece band, Envy Of None. Released on April 8 via Kscope, the group's eponymous debut album sees the guitar hero team up with Andy Curran (founder of veteran Canadian rockers Coney Hatch), producer and musician Alfio 'Alf' Annibalini, and upcoming US singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, Maiah Wynne.
The 25 year-old vocalist is central to the project, which is billed as featuring "various shades of alternative, experimental and synth rock" and "twisting dark melodies against contemporary pop hooks'. Their music marks a stylistic shift for Lifeson, into a more experimental, almost left-field prog sound. In January the launch single Liar set the tone for the project, which has been nearly five years in the making.
"Andy and I have known each other since the 80s," Lifeson tells Prog, "through our bands, and management representation. He joined our management company [Anthem] as our A&R guy and spent many years on the road with Rush, where we truly cemented a close relationship."
Curran began working on the ideas that made it to Envy Of None with long-term production partner Annibalini, but the band began taking shape in 2016, when Curran met Portland-based performer Wynne. She had won a songwriting contest for which one of her prizes was a 'mentorship Zoom call' with him.
"We really clicked," Wynne says, "talking about this style of darker music, and Andy brought up that he had been working on some similar music on his own. He sent me [the song] Shadow and we had a really good cohesion sending files back and forth, just for the love of the music."
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