If you’re a fan of the RUSH’s classic ‘2112’ to ‘Moving Pictures’ period – and if you’re not, for shame – fellow Canadians CROWN LANDS should be right up your alley. The Oshawa, Ontario-based duo has the same penchant for combining progressive sprawl and instrumental dexterity, heady plotlines and thematics, crafty songwriting and anthemic catchiness that made its Toronto-based peers legends. Also, the divisive balls-in-a-vice yowling. More on that in a bit.
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