THE STANDSTILLS built a reputation for transcendent rock anthems, gigantic hooks, hypnotic grooves, and infectious riffs.

They first emerged on a pair of indie releases. From the Devil’s Porch, their 2015 EP, produced three successful Active Rock singles, resulting in a 2016 win for Best New Group or Solo Artist: Mainstream Rock at the Canadian Radio Music Awards.  Their follow up album in 2019, Badlands had its’ first single Wild. which was the fastest charting top ten single in eOne Canadian history. This put them on the stage with Lenny Kravitz, Nickelback and Robbie Krieger and the late Ray Manzareck of The Doors.

Musicians often say a band is like a marriage. Comprised of husband-and-wife duo Jonny Fox and Renée Couture, THE STANDSTILLS fit that definition literally. On album number two, the organic and gritty Shockwave, the duo lay their story bare, with intimate and urgent rock n’ roll bombast.

Produced by Neil Sanderson from Three Days Grace and mixed by two-time Grammy Award winner Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Santana, Daughtry), their new album to be released in the fall of 2022 Shockwave blends immediately accessible choruses with magnetic layers of depth revealed in repeated listens.

Hailing from the Lake Ontario shoreline city of Oshawa, in Ontario, Canada, THE STANDSTILLS spread their seductive psychedelic stoner rock through extensive travels in just a few short years.

That commitment to truth-telling led to the revelatory songs found all over Shockwave. “We pushed ourselves to write an album that tells our story. I don’t think we’d done that yet.  We’ve touched on it throughout previous singles,” Fox says. “But this one is just like: ‘Here we are.’”

“We’ve completely opened and exposed who we are in a way that we’ve never done before,” says Fox. “It felt like the right time. We’ve always gone with our gut instincts. We felt ready to do it. This is the album we’ve been working towards. I hope it connects to people in a deep way, as much as it’s meant to us in the creation and the life experiences that it took to make the album.”

It’s the same philosophy they’ve put into their relationship with one another. “Like falling in love, you can’t force it,” Fox says. “You just arrive. When Renée and I met, I was so focused on making music and getting into the music industry, doing it by myself. But with Renée, I didn’t want to lose that feeling of something greater than self. That’s how love happens. It happens organically. If you don’t jump on that opportunity, you’re not giving yourself a gift.

The Standstills have spent the year touring the U.S. and parts of Canada to support their latest singles “Pretty Little Broken Thing” and “Get Right” and the band will be on tour with Three Days Grace this November across Canada to support their new single “Motherlode” featuring Eagles of Death Metal, as well as the release of their highly anticipated new album.