Crown Lands announce debut self-titled album

July 21, 2020 James Weaver

CROWN LANDS have announced their debut album!

The upcoming album, a self-titled effort, is the debut full-length effort from the Canadian rock duo and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Universal Music Canada.

Working in Nashville with six-time Grammy winner Dave Cobb [RIVAL SONS, CHRIS STAPLETON] who produced the album, helped the duo in both refining their writing and following their gut. “Dave pushed us to listen to ourselves and really trust our initial instinct with a song,” says vocalist/drummer Cody Bowles.

Alongside the announcement of the debut album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming release; End Of The Road. The song pays tribute to the Indigenous womxn, girls, and two-spirits who have gone missing or have been murdered on Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia, which is referred to as the Highway of Tears.

Speaking about the new song, Bowles says, “End of the Road is an outcry for awareness and action surrounding the colonial horrors of the missing and murdered Indigenous Womxn, Girls, and Two-Spirits that still haunt Indigenous communities today. Violence against Indigenous people is something I have witnessed firsthand throughout my life. I am half Mi’kmaw and grew up spending of a lot of my childhood in and around Alderville First Nation. I identify as Two-Spirit and dream of a better world for the brilliant Indigenous womxn, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people who face adversity every day for their very existence. It’s up to all of us to make this world a better place for future generations, and this song is a small message of hope adding to the rising wave of Indigenous resistance throughout this land.”

Watch the official music video for End Of The Road here: