The band has sold over five million albums worldwide, won four Juno Awards, and ten MuchMusic Video Awards. OLP has released eight studio albums to date, with "Clumsy" often being considered the most popularized of the set. The Heavyweight Songfacts reports that their eighth studio album Curve was recorded from 2010 through 2012 at vocalist Raine Maida's home recording studio. It was released on April 3, 2012.
Full circle: a theme that eagerly resonates with each member of multiplatinum survivors, Our Lady Peace. As the band approached the release of their seventh studio album, a feeling of renewal and excitement washed over Toronto’s favorite sons in a manner not felt since their earliest days.
Self-produced in lead singer Raine Maida’s Los Angeles home studio, the 10-track Burn Burn (in stores July 21 2009), marks the longest period between studio albums for Our Lady Peace. It also signifies a sonic and philosophical rebirth. The band now enjoys a creative and professional freedom that they haven’t experienced since the release of their now classic debut. “I think about the way we made Naveed,” Maida recalls. “We were just starting, we knew nothing about the business and we had no expectations. It was four guys in a room just trusting their instincts. We went back to that. ‘Liberating’ doesn’t really even sum it up.”
Burn Burn is a triumphant return to what Maida terms “a proper, mature rock album,” steeped in the kind of raw intensity that drove their early material. Blinding rays of anthemic light make way to the tender poise and precision of a band that was looking for a way out and found a satisfying new way in.
With caution thrown to the wind, tracks such as the stunningly arranged “Dreamland” and the overpowering first single, “All You Did Was Save My Life,” soar above angry clouds of confusion and insecurity with an ascending clarity that can only come from experience and growth.
The pounding affirmation of “The Right Stuff” and the vigilant build of band favorite “Refuge,” also reinforce the notion that OLP now occupy a unique and enviable mindspace. “We’re not looking back with any kind of regret,” Maida points out, “but we’ve been doing this long enough now that we know what we want to say. We didn’t want to compromise a thing.”
Having scattered in different directions after the release of 2005’s Healthy In Paranoid Times, all four members took on projects of their own, ranging from solo records, production and songwriting work, tours and guest performances. Over the last two years, Raine Maida, guitarist Steve Mazur, bassist Duncan Coutts and drummer Jeremy Taggart sporadically reconvened and lived at Madia’s home, creating what he calls their best effort to date.
Members would leave each session without tapes, giving themselves a much fresher perspective on the material they created when they returned. Producing themselves and an adherence to rolling tape off the floor gave birth to an urgent, natural body of work. “We didn’t put a lot of pressure on ourselves,” Coutts confirms. “We left things alone and haven't done that in a long time."
“For us,” adds Maida, “a big part of this band is playing live. It has to be something that we’re going to enjoy; a real dynamic collection of songs. When we really started to understand that, the record took on this whole other life.”
This work ethic allowed room for guitarist Steve Mazur, who joined the band in 2002, to blossom on Burn Burn. “On this album I really felt comfortable with my role and what I sound like as the guitarist of Our Lady Peace.” Mazur shines on tracks such as “Escape Artist” and “Paper Moon,” a song where Mazur’s solowork was nailed on the first go-round.
Our Lady Peace is also striking out on their own professionally this time around, opting for what the band terms a “true partnership” with both North American record labels. “We’ve never been this prepared for an album,” adds OLP founding member Jeremy Taggart. “In the past, we’ve never had the foresight to have maybe two or three singles in the can already with videos, etc.”
“Nobody knows us better than ourselves,” Taggart continues. “We didn’t over think a good song or idea or under think anything. The good songs really picked themselves.”
The Wonderful Future /
Our Lady Peace Lyrics
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Maybe she's gone, but it won't be for long, what do I know? Maybe she's found what we all dream about, what do I know?(oh)
She beautiful and wonderful. I can't compare. It's not that fair.
She builds a strong alibi from the future that's here. She needs to know I'm alive and that I'm flesh and I tear. Maybe she's wrong, but I want my, my own.What do I know. Breasts of silicone,with a touch of her soul.(oh) She's beautiful and wonderful, and I can't comapare. (ohhhh) It's not that fair.(ohhh)Oh they're, oh they're malicious lies, they're.(do, do)
The lyrics to Our Lady Peace's song "The Wonderful Future" suggest that a woman is leaving the "old world" behind and constructing her own satellite from an old, rusted chair. It is unclear why she is doing this, but the singer speculates that she may have found something that they all dream about. He observes that she is beautiful and wonderful but sees these qualities as unattainable and unfair, perhaps because he cannot compare to her.
The woman creates a "strong alibi" from the future, which suggests that she is moving on to something new and different. However, the singer wants her to know that he is alive and human, even if he tears and is made of flesh. He acknowledges that her breasts may be made of silicone, but he sees a touch of her soul in them. The singer seems to harbor some jealousy, as he refers to the possibility that she might be wrong and he wants something that is his own.
Line by Line Meaning
She builds her own satellite from an old rusted chair.
She uses discarded materials to build something useful, showing resourcefulness and creativity.
She leaves this old world behind and the things that's she cares.
She's willing to let go of attachments to pursue a new and better future.
Maybe she's gone, but it won't be for long, what do I know?
Perhaps she has moved on to something greater, but the singer can't be sure.
Maybe she's found what we all dream about, what do I know?(oh)
She might have discovered the very thing everyone hopes for, it's hard to say.
She beautiful and wonderful. I can't compare. It's not that fair.
She's so extraordinary that comparisons don't do her justice, making things seem unjust.
She builds a strong alibi from the future that's here.
She's building plans for the future that will prove she didn't abandon the past without reason.
She needs to know I'm alive and that I'm flesh and I tear.
It's important for her to know that the singer is human, fragile, and real.
Maybe she's wrong, but I want my, my own.What do I know.
She could be incorrect, but the artist desires what they want regardless of that possibility.
Breasts of silicone,with a touch of her soul.(oh) She's beautiful and wonderful, and I can't compare. (ohhhh) It's not that fair.(ohhh)
The artist recognizes and admires her physical beauty, and acknowledges it is also unfair to compare her to others.
Oh they're, oh they're malicious lies, they're.(do, do)
The artist is dismissive of rumors that aim to discredit or defame her, recognizing them as harmful lies.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: COUTTS, LANNI, MAIDA, TAGGART, TURNER
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Jaime Pérez Gómez
My favourite song of this record, makes me back to the past and the happiness still there when this song is played 😙
rainkinggw
Keep living it. Beautiful track
Ferret with a gun!!!
One of the most underrated bands ever. OLP and Everclear are legends to me.
Super J
I was thinking the other day. A tour Everclear and OLP!
Julio Cesar
this music never gets old, my all time favorite ❤️
Mr. Lee Gibson
Loved this whole album since it came out, this song blows my mind. Touches the soul and heart ❤.
Sarah Henderson
✨Soul healing music ✨🙏🏼
Omar Ernesto Caneo
20 years later and I'm starting to realize the profound influence Spiritual Machines had on my psyche as a troubled young kid. This is probably the most important album of my liife.
Brandon Meneses
What a high notes on min 3:00 . Raine its just incredible, I admire the band since I was 17 years old. Now with 27 I remember when I reapeat again again this song. Greetings from Peru
Stoner Face
This was my go-to 'sad times' album.
Thank you Raine for the masterpiece that is the acoustic version.