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Hamilton, Ontario baroque-pop quartet Superstar Crush unveil their darkly romantic new single, “Fire Escape,” a vampirical, stampeding whirlwind of unrequited love and poetic disarray. Equal parts chaotic and cinematic, the track is their first new music since 2024’s Crushed to Meet You EP, and the latest preview of their debut full-length, due summer 2025.
Written during a spell of writer’s block and sparked by a melody tapped out on a plastic windowpane, “Fire Escape” embodies the band’s flair for dramatic imagery, magnetic hooks, and gloriously off-kilter structure. Anchored by a three-way vocal interplay and a wall-of-sound production that nods to Springsteen, Broken Social Scene, and Arcade Fire, the song builds to a psych-rock outro, complete with glockenspiel flourishes and cinematic string swells.
Lyrically, “Fire Escape” drips with disheveled longing and literary references, from RAW Magazine comic covers to Japanese and French romance films. Written in another friend’s vocal range as a songwriting experiment, the track demanded collaboration: “We all had to sing it together just to hit the notes,” the band jokes. The final result is uniquely theirs – a jarring, electric portrait of emotional freefall.
Produced by Tyler Kyte (Dwayne Gretzky), the song features a haunting violin arrangement by Helen Faucher, written so late in the process the band nearly forgot it existed until she brought it to life in the studio: “It was like déjà vu,” they say. “We just hoped it worked, and it did.”
Working with Helen Faucher on bringing our violin arrangement to life was pretty majestic. The arrangement was written on a really late night in London, Ontario, we’d forgotten what it was supposed to sound like by the morning because we can’t reeeaally read sheet music. Helen’s such a talented sight-reader she just scanned the page like “Yep, this is great.”, and we started layering up parts. Very deja-vu to hear her resurrect the arrangement.
Our ever so wise manager, Tyer Kyte told us that being in a band is like being married to three people and we should treat it as such. We’ve really taken this advice to heart, so now we always put the toilet seat back down, take turns doing the dishes, hold each other just a little bit longer, etc.
Alvvays, or the California Raisins (just to be a fly on the wall)
3 different lead singers. Boys and girls who are friends. We have the privilege of being in a music scene that’s pretty experimental/alternative, so maybe it’s unique of a band in the Ontario scene right now to be so into pop-oriented as well as experimental. It’s nice to see a crowd with music nerds right next to people who just wanna dance. We’re not too snobby either way.
There isn’t always a Hollywood exit – sometimes the fire escape is just stairs and smoke. This song’s about stumbling down them with style. – Truaxe Fox, drums/vocals
Superstar Crush‘s 2024 EP, Crushed to Meet You, was recorded in their former grade school, and their upcoming full-length was produced by Tyler Kyte in Toronto. Over the past year, they’ve sold out hometown venues, won Hamilton’s Battle of the Bands, played Supercrawl, and charmed crowds across central Canada.
Now with “Fire Escape” lighting the way toward their debut LP, Superstar Crush are ready to bring their signature brand of noisy tenderness and vampire pop to a wider stage. Just check “yes.”
