Steven Page on Friday dropped his new album Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II, which includes the single “White Noise.”
Page told Billboard last month that the song was inspired by the white nationalist rally last year in Charlottesville.
"It was so shocking to me," he said. “That's one of the great things I've found about making music is I don't have to have answers, but it's important for me to have the discussion. As long as you raise the questions you can come up with your own conclusions.”
The former Barenaked Ladies singer’s fifth solo album was recorded near Toronto and in Vancouver, and comes two years after Pt. I: Instinct.
Page is collaborating with Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor on Here’s What It Takes, a musical for the Stratford Festival, and is doing a series of concerts early next year with Symphony New Brunswick.
He will also spend next May on your across Canada.
Page reunited with Barenaked Ladies at this year’s Juno Awards, where the band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He told Billboard he’s not sure if there will be a full-fledged reunion anytime soon.
“I think there have been offers to do stuff, but there's been no discussion on either side,” he said. “I'm not looking for a gig. I don't want to be in the band again. But if there was something else we could do, whether play a tour or a benefit gig or a special appearance somewhere, anything like that, I probably wouldn't say no.
“But I'm booked well into next year and I think those guys are as well, so who knows.”