Pilot Speed (formerly known
as Pilate) is a Canadian
rock band
that formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario
. The quartet's debut
EP,
For All That's Given,
Wasted, was released in
2001 which
gathered attention from
MapleMusic
Recordings who later signed them. Their three full length
albums
Caught by the
Window,
Sell
Control for Life's Speed and
Wooden Bones have since been released on
MapleMusic Recordings in 2003,
2006 and 2009 respectively.
On
June 26,
2006, the
band posted a message on their site stating that, due to legal
restrictions, they decided to change their band name before it
incited lawsuits from companies outside Canada. As a result, they
altered their name to Pilot Speed. Their second album was then
re-released in the United States by
Wind-up Records with a new name,
Into the
West.
Band members
- Todd Clark - lead vocals/piano/lyricist
- Chris Greenough - guitar
- Ruby Bumrah - bass
- Bill Keeley - drums
History
Todd Clark, upon completing university, became overwhelmed by his
desire to create music and, accordingly, posted an ad for a bassist
on the internet. In this fashion, Clark and Bumrah met, with Bumrah
later introducing Chris Greenough and Bill Keeley to Clark, all
three of which were art school classmates at the time. Together
they began to create music and eventually released an independent
EP titled
For All That's Given,
Wasted in order to establish their presence on the Toronto
music scene. Their unique sound consisting of fervent falsetto and
quiet depth eventually developed a small fan base, but Todd Clark
insisted that the members of Pilot Speed were just four normal guys
lucky enough to have found the same musical vision.
Pilate soon became a popular draw on the Toronto club scene.
After the
band played a show opening for the British
band
Alfie, NOW reviewer Sarah Liss wrote that "It's
not too often that you catch a show where more of the audience is
there to see the opening act than the main attraction."
Attention on Pilate grew further when, at the
2002 NXNE festival in Toronto,
Pilate was named "Best Unsigned Band." In the following year, they
finally released, on
MapleMusic
Recordings, their first full-length album,
Caught by the Window, which was
recorded at Toronto’s Umbrella Sound studio with Carvalho, and
eventually spawned the hit singles "Into Your Hideout" and "Melt
into the Walls." It also spawned a third single, "Overrated".
Caught by the Window is often compared in sound to a
mellow, hazy Brit-rock. During this period the band toured and
performed with many notable Canadian talents such as
Lesley Pike.
With their
new album, Sell
Control for Life's Speed, released in Canada on April 25, 2006, and on May 2, 2006 in the US
, the band
developed a harder sound when compared to their dulcet previous
release. The first single from their second album is "Barely
Listening." The single also appears on the video game
NHL 07. They re-released the record through Wind-up
Records on September 19, 2006 and renamed it "Into the West." "Into
the West" does NOT include the extremely up-beat, tongue-in-cheek -
"For Canadians Only" song, "Lover Come In".
Their song "Alright" is heard during two scenes and closing credits
of the movie
Death
Sentence.
A blog posted July 30, 2008 on the Pilot Speed MySpace stated that
the band is currently in the process of recording their next album
with producer Dennis Herring
Pilot Speed's New Album,
"myspace.com/pilotspeed", retrieved 29 September, 2008, who has
previously worked with Modest Mouse.
On
April 28th, 2009, Pilot Speed released
their third album,
Wooden
Bones.
The song
"Light You Up", released on Wooden
Bones, was featured at TIFF
09
, being used during each film screening's opening
bumper to promote the Festival's various film categories, the
Bell Lightbox as well as major
sponsors.
Discography
Albums
EPs
Singles
Other contributions
References
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