In 2009, Our Lady Peace produced their seventh album, Burn Burn, released on Warner Music's Independent Label Group. The 10 tracks will be available on July 21st, 2009. This album is their first since 2005, self-produced by the band at Raine's home studio in L.A. Our Lady Peace surpassed Platinum sales status in Canada, sold over 5 million albums worldwide, won four Juno awards, The Much Music Awards and have shared the stage with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Faith No More, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Ramones, Stone Temple Pilots and Alanis Morrisette.
Our Lady Peace is:
Raine Maida: vocals, lyricist
Duncan Coutts: bass
Jeremy Taggart: percussion
and Steve Mazur: guitar

For years, music has been lacking acoustics, raw vocals, live instruments and pure driven rock and roll. The days of full bands performing with energy directed to the crowd, have been long gone. The monotonous subjection to the business of music and its lack of knowledge and experience with the subterranean has forced fans, as well as musicians, to revert to what they already know and like. Burn Burn is proof that music is indeed, still alive and thriving.

"I'm not for sale / but I've been sold", anthemic lyrics from the first track, "All You Did Was Save My Life", intros Steve's aesthetic guitar to Raine on vocals, "You looked at me as you walked in the room / like a Red Sea you split me open / somehow knew these wings were stolen / All You Did Was Save My Life." The tune progresses with the addition of Jeremy, then Duncan, in brash harmony with "I'm not dying." "All You Did Was Save My Life" is an introspective self realization.

"Dreamland" is reminiscent of mid 90's sublime (the definition, not the band) interspersed with extreme positivity that can only be gleaned from being thrust into a world where morals and ethics are oftentimes difficult to maintain. Raine pleads: "In mystery land the kids are alright / and the sky is blue / we all got wings / you know I love flying / I'm headed to the moon / the sun on my face / my head in the clouds / time on my side / my feet off the ground . . . I'm not comin' down."

"Paper Moon" is delicate elegance. Steve scorches throughout the track, as surreal as Raine's hypnotic vocal range: "I was thinking if you know a way out / then I'd like to go with you / and we can burn out like candles / under that paper moon / . . . they just don't know anything at all" All four of them (Raine, Duncan, Jeremy and Steve) annihilate the idealism of what "music" is today, bringing it right back to what works: simplicity. Raine ends: "There's a time that you get turned around / life itself just wears you out / you keep getting ready for that big parade." This tune is one for the stadiums.

To purchase Burn Burn on and after July 21st, 2009: www.ourladypeace.net stocked with video, music, and studio sessions. Also Myspace: www.myspace.com/OurLadyPeace.

Our Lady Peace will be performing at Western New York's largest series on July 3rd, The Molson Park Canal Concert Series, 5:30 - 10:30pm: www.canalconcerts.com.

To listen to a 45 minute interview with Raine Maida and Susan Marie on Think Twice Radio, click here: www.thinktwiceradio.com

Our Lady Peace, on Burn Burn, transcends what is currently being sold and defined as music.

Review by Susan Marie

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