I don’t think it ever has during our career. Raine: Two of us live in LA, and two in Toronto.īeing a Canadian rock band, what weight does that term “Canadian rock band” carry to you? Raine: Anything with that amount of time, you’re gonna have little blips, but I would say overall, the coolest thing about this band is that this campaign, this new record, is some of the best work we’ve ever done. What’s it been like making music under the same moniker for 30 years? Have there ever been identity struggles?ĭuncan: Of course, there have been struggles. Our Lady Peace came together in Toronto in 1992. In conversation with 1883, Andy Gorel chats with Raine Maida and Duncan Coutts from Our Lady Peace to discuss their new album Spiritual Machines II, being a touring rock band, Web3, and more. It had been previously made available as a limited edition NFT, but is out everywhere today.įrom being a highly regarded and massively successful touring act through the 90s, to connecting with fans through Web3 in the 2020s, all while remaining completely artistically relevant, Our Lady Peace is proof that today’s future is tomorrow’s past, and both are equally important. Produced largely in conjunction with TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, it’s what lead singer Raine Maida has confirmed himself as “Future Rock”. The result is Spiritual Machines II, the band’s tenth studio album which features a new set of predictions from Kurzweil himself. With the 20-year-anniversary of Spritiual Machines’ coming during the 2020 lockdowns, the relevancy was palpable. As time unfolded, the clairvoyance of Kurzweil’s musings became undeniable. Could AI become singular? Are computers sentient? Fueled by the Y2K-induced hysteria surrounding technology, these questions struck a chord with the zeitgeist of the era. These very gifts are what led to their critic’s darling of a fourth album Spiritual Machines, a concept album released in 2000, based off futurist Ray Kurzweil’s similarly named book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, which was released just one year earlier in 1999. However, what has always made Our Lady Peace particularly appealing, and arguably more accessible than many of their 90s peers, is the social awareness and human qualities in their songs and their ability to adapt to the era they’re in. Having come together in 1992, and seeing massive success throughout the 90s and early aughts, the band is afforded the rare privilege of being cemented in rock history alongside contemporaries like Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins. That seems to be a theme with Our Lady Peace. And if we look to the past, we will see it’s still coming.
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