Ace of Wands, the Toronto-based art rock band, return at their most vulnerable. Their new single, Edge of the Edge, slams hard, sharpened by urgency, powered by ardent vocals and radiant rock guitars that are equally familiar and destabilized.
The songwriting is undeniably accessible, yet it's haunted by something deeper, like a distorted, modern echo of Fleetwood Mac filtered through an underground sensibility that never really surfaces.
Edge of the Edge, written after a hallucinogenic night at a friend's cabin on Georgian Bay, portrays a moment of perceptual transition, the fragile threshold at which darkness loses its grip and clarity emerges.
The band’s own Lee Rose comments: “Edge of the Edge is the perfect musical example of the power of this band and the energy we can inject into music as a group. Listening back to the original voice memos of this song, I’m reminded it started as a tender, lilting melody. It was gentle. When we got together as a band, it was immediately clear where the music needed to go. We needed to embrace the felt sense I was trying to express in the lyrics. Wild and unrestrained, with no fear — leaping off the edge into the unknown future. Together, we could take it there.”
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