Fade Awaays

After getting started in the Toronto club scene, Fade Awaays began their career relentlessly gigging throughout the city and beyond. Setting out on multiple tours across Ontario and Eastern Canada, all while finishing high school and completing music college. Their debut EP, “Taste of Life” was released in 2018 to great reviews, in 2019 the band played a string of shows with <a href="spotify:artist:6ws5XBA70XgeBpnLZhQBoy" data-name="The Beaches">The Beaches</a> and ended up signing with The Feldman Agency. Over the next two years Fade Awaays would release two singles, “As They Do” and “I Won’t Lie”.

With the looming threat of the Pandemic, the band found themselves transferring their live energy into new music. Spending time demoing at DIY studios in friends basements and at cottages. In 2021, Fade Awaays released their sophomore EP, “These Visions”. Which saw the lead single, “Silent Treatment” make it to the semi-finals of CBC’s Searchlight competition.

In the fall of 2021, the band started working with producer Sam Arion of <a href="spotify:artist:3gpigA0gozgJpoFVyhVUPu" data-name="Mute Choir">Mute Choir</a> on their third EP. In 2022, the band finally made a return to performing and had released the first single off their upcoming EP when tragically lead singer and founding member Reid MacMaster suddenly passed away.

In February 2023 the band released the second single from the EP and an accompanying music video filmed with Reid, “Material Things”—With plans to finish and release the rest of the EP later in the year.

Fade Awaays is Reid Macmaster, Sean Hackl, Duncan Briggs, Owen Wolff.