- 2025-03-05
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MUSIC
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Spiritbox Premieres New Song “Crystal Roses” on BBC Radio 1
Canadian heavy metal band Spiritbox, consisting of Courtney LaPlante (vocals), Mike Stringer (guitar), Zev Rosenberg (drums) and Josh Gilbert (bass), premiered a new song “Crystal Roses” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the fourth and final pre-release single from their upcoming sophomore album “Tsunami Sea”, which is set to be released this Fruday (March 7).
The new album comprises a 11-track, produced by Dan Braunstein and Mike Stringer. It is their first album in four years since the 2021 album “Eternal Blue”.
The track was written by Courtney LaPlante, Dan Braunstein, and Mike Stringer. Produced by Mike Stringer and Dan Braunstein.
Before the BBC Radio 1 aired the single, the band announced their disappointment that it was released without their permission.
The band said, “I don't normally like to air out behind the scenes things like this, but we did not approve putting out another single today. None of us were aware this was happening. I am extremely disappointed and only found out about it late last night, by chance. Trying to take it down asap.”-
The band lead singer Courtney LaPlante told Jack Saunders about the song, “This one's so special to us, because it's just like another way when you're doing an album, there's all these big feelings you're feeling, and you want to compartmentalize them all into each song. You hope that, like, if someone listens to the whole thing, they listen to all of Tsunami Sea, they'll kind of get what your mission statement is without you having to tell it, you can show it. So this song is a little like a river with all like the tributaries, like going off from it, like veins, like fingers. And this is like one of you took a wrong turn, you went down the wrong stream. And it's like, parallel with the rest of the album, but it's like, I imagine that this is kind of like the prequel to the next, the song that comes after, where you're just lost at sea. When I think of like dance music and techno and like house and stuff like that, it's like an odyssey of sound. So this is kind of like that, almost like psychedelic aspect of being really, feeling really out of place.” - She said of the visual for the song, “I think that a lot of people like you're listening to music. There's some visual thing that happens in your brain, even if it's just like a really weird color or something like that. I think, like subconsciously, if you were to take out of your subconscious and sit there while you're listening to something, either it's invoking, like the moment where you heard the song for the first time, like nostalgia, or your experience seeing the band live, or just like a weird, crazy, story in your heads. That's I'm usually on that side of it, I'm hearing like a weird, there's a visual that is completely intertwined. With the music, and that helps me write lyrics, and then sometimes it makes its way to us, getting to make something for you to see as well.”
- source : BBC Radio 1
