Biography
In 1992, while both attended the University of Toronto, singer-songwriter Raine Maida crossed paths with guitarist Mike Turner; together they assembled the post-grunge group Our Lady Peace, bringing aboard bassist Chris Eacrett and jazz drummer Jeremy Taggart. Relativity became the band’s label, and in 1995 they delivered the album Naveed, whose modern rock single “Starseed” found an audience. Duncan Coutts stepped in for Eacrett ahead of the 1997 release Clumsy, and two years later the band issued Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. Spiritual Machines arrived in 2001; not long afterward Turner departed, making room for guitarist Steve Mazur. June 2002 saw the arrival of the leaner album Gravity. Our Lady Peace spent the following months on the road across Canada and the United States, then issued the concert recording Live from Calgary and Edmonton in both audio and video editions the next year. Late August 2005 marked the release of Healthy in Paranoid Times, the band’s seventh studio album, while the compilation A Decade appeared in 2006. Drawing from the beat poets and from songwriters such as Patti Smith and Leonard Cohen who moved between literary and musical spheres, Maida stepped out on his own with the 2006 EP Love Hope Hero and followed it the next year with the largely spoken-word, acoustic full-length The Hunter’s Lullaby.
Albums
