Making a comeback after 21 years away is quite the obstacle for any artist, but Andrew Spice is navigating that challenge with aplomb. Two decades after breaking through as one of Canada’s brightest new hopes, Andrew’s resurgence with his recent single ‘High Park’ made an impact in three key territories, with airplay including CBC in Canada and WXPN in the States, as well as an interview with Wonderland in the UK. But ‘High Park’ was only the beginning as Andrew Spice’s 2.0 era gains traction with his new single ‘Rage Stage’. Listen HERE. Watch the official video HERE. ‘Rage Stage’ finds Andrew placing a friend-turned-foe in his crosshairs and vowing to turn the situation to his advantage. His voice shakes with whispered menace and caustic snarls in a song of sweeping gothic pop balladry as he fires off an array of relationship-wrecking resentment for the other’s abominable personality flaws. They “include, but are not limited to, keeping up with the Joneses, and I learned that’s incompatible with my trauma and queerness.” While revenge may well be sweet, the essence of the song is instead that vitriolic anger is a healthy and natural emotion in the face of utter betrayal. Andrew says, “‘Rage Stage’ is about embracing fury as a part of grief. When I was navigating the trauma that this song is about, my initial emotion was a very vulnerable sadness. However, this quickly hardened into wrath. This song channels the intensity of that experience, and is a lyrical evisceration of an enemy.” ‘Rage Stage’ was written solely by Andrew Spice, and was produced by his regular collaborator, the Juno Award-nominated Matthew Barber. ‘Rage Stage’ is the next step as Andrew prepares to release his long overdue second album in 2025. It’s a set of singer-songwriter material spanning multiple genres and topics (tenderness, grief, his love of animals, and new beginnings, all with a playfully spiky sense-of humour), but one united by an overarching theme of facing and then overcoming his trauma. A steady succession of tough life experiences had sunk Andrew to a low point in his journey, despite his success in his post-music career as a clinical psychologist. He confided in his friend Emm Gryner, who had produced his OutMusic Award-nominated debut album ‘Pretty Demons’ all those years ago. She encouraged him to channel his pain into song, but Andrew was reluctant: starting again after twenty years would be too much, right? As it turns out… no. He eventually rose to her challenge to start with a simple one-minute song (his muse being his cat) but it relit the talent that had been so promising the first time around. He also had twenty years of fresh inspiration to draw upon: not only his recent battles, but with musical influences who hadn’t debuted when he wrote his first record, such as Metric, Tom Odell and Keane. 21 years later, Andrew is a very different person and the road certainly hasn’t been easy – but as an artist, he’s now living up to his youthful potential. | 
