Press release –
As accolades for their new album Revolution continue to roll in, Canadian roots rockers Grievous Angels have shared a new single, “Our Lady Of The Crows,” a poignant ballad featuring guest vocals from Andy Maize of Skydiggers. The single, and its accompanying video, also marks Revolution‘s arrival on vinyl, available to order from the Grievous Angels Bandcamp page.
When speaking earlier this year to CBC’s Ottawa’s Alan Neal, band leader Charlie Angus said of “Our Lady Of The Crows,” “I’ve been with my wife, Brit Griffen — she’s a writer — since I was 19, and I guess it’s about how we change over the years. But also how deep her understanding is of things she sees around us. I don’t have a clue about what she sees, but I see that she sees it, in the wilderness and in her spirituality. So I wrote that song for her. I said she was my muse, but she said don’t ever call me muse in public, call me comrade.”
Grievous Angels recorded Revolution live-off-the-floor over three days in August 2025 at Toronto’s Canterbury Music Studio with engineer Gretel Milla. It is a record for the times—an act of defiance against the darkness of the gangster fascists, whose message is also conveyed in the cover image of a clenched fist holding a white rose, painted by Ron Hawkins of Lowest Of The Low.
Revolution also marks a new chapter for Charlie Angus as the first Grievous Angels album to come following his 20-year career as a Canadian Member of Parliament. Having chosen not to run in the 2025 federal election, he now splits his time between the band and other projects aimed at maintaining Canadian sovereignty.
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Revolution track listing:
01 In The Time Of Monsters
02 Sister Mary
03 If There Was A Revolution
04 Our Lady Of The Crows
05 Saturday Night In A Laundromat
06 Samson And Delilah
07 Lost In The Woods
08 Roll Away The Stone
09 Judgement Day
10 Song For Joan Of Arc
“We used to see ourselves as a mongrel party band celebrating Canada’s northern working class, but these are different times and this is a different band,” Angus says. “We are much more political, more driven, more intense. It is reflected in the live sound that hits the stage like a locomotive. From a personal perspective, I feel that I can totally focus on the music and the relationship with the audience without the baggage of also being an MP.”
Describing the album in broad terms, Angus says, “Revolution is a gospel for the barricades. Hence the themes: Joan of Arc and Sophie Scholl the white rose martyr of the fascists; Easter morning in a land of burned out homes and military drones; a Palestinian child being hunted in the land of Jesus; a stripper Mary Magdalene in a mining town.”
In short, Revolution encapsulates four decades of Grievous Angels performing everywhere from picket lines to major festival stages, all while building a formidable body of work that ranks alongside those of peers such as Billy Bragg and The Mekons. As Billboard Canada stated, “Joe Strummer would be proud.”
