Article: “Our Lady Peace’s turning point on their new album ‘Curve‘” by Grace Stanisci
Artist: Our Lady Peace
Outlet: Yahoo! Canada Music – Sound Check
Date: Wed, 4 Apr, 2012

I’ll never forget being in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and getting a phone call that if I could make it to Toronto in 40-minutes, I could interview Our Lady Peace. I reached out to my Yahoo! Canada editor and she was quickly onboard and I hoped into the car for the drive of my life. Thinking of interview questions while I blasted ‘Curve’ on volume 11 the whole way down the 404 highway, I arrived and got to meet with lead guitarist Steve Mazur and bassist Duncan Coutts.

Meeting Canadian bands like this doesn’t happen everyday. I was invited to stay for the show at The Phoenix that night and my friend David got to come hang out.

Check out a sample from the interview here and head to the link about to read the entire article:

“In considering the life and future of this band, it was a step that we all knew we needed to take in order to continue on,” Coutts said. “To challenge each other as individuals, as players [and] as writers, I think that the motivation had to come from within. You know that it might challenge the fans, but you have to be okay with that as an artist.”

The challenge was making an album that was a departure from the ordinary and leap into the extraordinary by taking chances and experimenting during the recording process. An example of this is the fifth track on the album, which is also the anticipated next single, “As Fast As You Can.”