The Superstar Crush aren't mumbling their return, they used to shout it from the city's rooftops. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, the baroque-pop foursome offers a sultry display with their new single, "Fire Escape," the band's first release since 2024's "Crushed to Meet You" EP, and an addictive taste of their debut album, scheduled for release in summer 2025.
"Fire Escape" doesn't merely steam, it smolders. Produced by Tyler Kyte Dwayne Gretzky, the song rides on the band's characteristic maximalism, with galloping percussion colliding with lush, shadow-drenched orchestration. The song's heartbeat beats with its darkly poetic core. It is a narrative of unanswered love tumbling in a rush of Gothic drama and spectral beauty. There's a ghost in the room, and it's playing the violin. One of the most haunting elements of Helen Faucher's lonesome string arrangement almost didn't make the tape, as it was penned so late in the game that the band claims they had forgotten it existed. That serendipitous moment became the song's emotional undercurrent, a chilling, delicate brushstroke that draws you further into its feverish dream. The band remembers praying it would work, and it did.
The result is a song that sounds like a black-and-white film reel breaking free. Erratic and intense in a strangely romantic way. Superstar Crush is an expert at making chaos sound like passion, and "Fire Escape" is their most daring high-wire act yet. From the spiraling strings to the dramatic arcs of the vocal line, every note seems at once the product of spontaneity and scrupulous stagecraft, a pair of lovers tapping out a dance as they stand on the precipice of something doomed and beautiful.
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