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Envy Of None (Rush, Etc.) Premiere “Never Said I Love You” Video

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Envy Of None, the new band featuring Alex Lifeson (Rush), Andy Curran (Coney Hatch), Alfio Annibalini, and Maiah Wynne, have premiered a new video for their song “Never Said I Love You.” This track is from the group’s recently released self-titled debut album.

Curran said the following about the video:

“[It] really captured the spirit of the song. It’s very cinematic and I love all the moody cityscapes. The main character is very free spirited, and the video loosely follows the narrative in a subtle way. I love the picking of the flower petals: ‘He loves me, he loves me not? Isn’t that what life’s all about …wanting to be loved or accepted?”

He also added the following about the song:

“‘Never Said I Love You’ is a very special one for me and Alf. It had been kicking around for a while in a demo form and the bed track always felt like it had so much potential. When we wrote the backing tracks, we were certainly feeling it had some punk/pop overtones. I think we were channeling late ’80s Britpop vibrations, and I came up with the lyric line ‘I Never Said I Love You’, again inspired by bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths and Ultravox who all wrote about broken hearts on the dance floors around the world. So I thought it was time to re-introduce that theme but with something that was more upbeat.

When Maiah and I spoke about this, she liked that lyrical hook and ran with it. The icing was Alex coming in and in the 11th hour adding the awesome middle section that sounds like pedal steel and the acoustic guitars in the chorus just elevate it to the next level.

My initial thought lyrically was more of a ‘back off, I never said I love you.’ Kinda like, ‘hey we’re just friends,’ but I love how Maiah turned that into something much different.”

Wynne also commented:

“This song had great energy from the beginning.

Everyone connects and interprets music from their own unique perspective.

When I heard the line ‘I Never Said I Love You’, I thought of it more from the point of view of someone who never had the chance to tell the person they love how they felt before it was too late. Maybe a bad fight in a relationship that never had a resolution, or a casual fling that never became a serious relationship despite deeper feelings being there, or friends with romantic feelings that never became lovers.

When I wrote and arranged the rest of the lyrics and vocal melodies for the song I wrote it with that sense of connection, tension, loss, and longing in mind.”

Envy Of None (Rush, Etc.) Premiere “Look Inside” Music Video

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Envy Of None, the new band featuring Alex Lifeson (Rush), Andy Curran (Coney Hatch), Alfio Annibalini, and Maiah Wynne, have premiered a new video for their latest single “Look Inside.” This track is from the group’s self-titled debut album, which will be released on April 8.

Curran commented:

“I was in my studio late one night, headphones on… a few glasses of red wine deep and thought, wouldn’t it be fun to pull out my bass, blow up the tone, double it and play to a really messed up super slow drum groove. It’s got a real stoner vibe to it. That’s what happens when you mix wine and bass… Mission accomplished!”

Wynne added:

“Sometimes you have to shine a light on all the ugliest pieces of yourself in order to truly change, and you have to keep slaying that dragon over and over again. It is a continuous, slow and painful process. The guitars and bass really drive the grittiness and heaviness I felt when I wrote those lyrics. It feels like an all-encompassing sludge, and that is what I absolutely love about this song.”

Envy Of None (Rush, Etc.) Premiere New Song “Look Inside”

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Envy Of None, the new band featuring Alex Lifeson (Rush), Andy Curran (Coney Hatch), Alfio Annibalini, and Maiah Wynne, have premiered a new song titled “Look Inside.” This track is from the group’s self-titled debut album, which will be released on April 8.

Envy Of None (Rush, Etc.) To Release Debut Album In April, Premiere New Song “Liar”

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Envy Of None, the new band featuring Alex Lifeson (Rush), Andy Curran (Coney Hatch), Alfio Annibalini, and Maiah Wynne, will be releasing their self-titled debut album on April 8. The effort’s first single, “Liar,” can be found below:

“Envy Of None” Track Listing:

01. “Never Said I Love You”
02. “Shadow”
03. “Look Inside”
04. “Liar”
05. “Spy House”
06. “Dog’s Life”
07. “Kabul Blues”
08. “Old Strings”
09. “Dumb”
10. “Enemy”
11. “Western Sunset”

Lifeson commented:

“Maiah became my muse. She was able to bring this whole new ethereal thing through her sense of melody on tracks like ‘Liar’ and ‘Look Inside’. After hearing her vocals on ‘Never Said I Love You’, I felt so excited. I’ve never had that kind of inspiration working with another musician. When we say she’s special, it’s because she’s really fucking special.”

Wynne added:

“One of my favorite things about these songs is the intimacy of them. It makes them feel different and more honest. There are some heavier songs too, like ‘Enemy,’ and then tracks like Kabul Blues, that sound completely different to anything else.”

Lifeson also revealed that the closing track, “Western Sunset,” serves as a tribute to Neil Peart:

“I visited Neil when he was ill. I was on his balcony watching the sunset and found inspiration. There’s a finality about a sunset that kinda stayed with me throughout the whole process. It had meaning. It was the perfect mood to decompress after all these different textures… a nice way to close the book.”

Rush’s Alex Lifeson And Coney Hatch’s Andy Curran Have “Done An Album’s Worth Of Material” For Their New Project

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Rush’s Alex Lifeson and Coney Hatch’s Andy Curran are working on a new project, which they are tentatively calling Envy Of None. Notably, the band have already finished “an album’s worth of material.”

Lifeson told Sweetwater the following about the project:

“Andy approached me about four years ago, shortly after the last Rush tour, about just adding some guitar on some of the things that he was doing. And I did that. A few months later, he sent another one, and did that. And then we started getting more serious.

And then we found a great singer, Maiah Wynne, from Portland, Oregon — just a fabulous, fabulous voice and a really smart songwriter and vocal performer. So we’ve basically done an album’s worth of material that we hope to release sometime soon. I’m really excited about that.”

He also added:

“We’re just working on that part of it. All the music is recorded. We are mixing currently. We’re in a good place, but it’s very challenging. The industry is so, so very different than it was certainly 10 years ago, never mind last year. We’ll see. Hopefully late summer, early fall we might have something. But we are very, very excited about it. It’s pretty cool stuff, I think.”

[via Metal Injection]