When guitarist/bassist/ keyboardist Kevin Comeau formed Crown Lands with drummer/vocalist Cody Bowles in 2016, they resolved to keep their live shows a pure, two-man operation. “We started out doing the octave/ split amp trick that every duo does,” Comeau says, “but we thought, ‘Nah, let’s do it for real’. On my travels I picked up some Taurus pedals, so if I’m playing guitar I’m playing bass through those. Then there’s a couple of moments where I’m tapping my guitar with my left hand, playing keyboard with my right hand and playing the bass with my foot. That way we get away with not having backing tracks, and that’s really important to us – to be the real deal.”