VIDEO PREMIERE: EDENSONG’s New Single “Book Of Complaints” Is A Progressive Rock Blast Fueled By Chaos & Catharsis

New York City-based progressive rock band Edensong is back with another preview of their upcoming album Our Road To Dust, this time premiering with us their new single accompanied by a lyric video directed by Wayne Joyner. The track “Book Of Complaints” is a reflection on fractured artistic relationships, petty conflict, and the odd places inspiration can strike.

Bassist and vocalist TD “BenBen” Towers, who wrote the core of the song and performs lead vocals on it, traces its unusual origin to a particularly bad night out. “’Book Of Complaints’ is a song that sat in my head for a really long time before coming out into the world,” Towers shares. “My wife and I went to a fairly awful restaurant one time and found out that they had a book that you could write in with complaints about the food, which I found hilarious. As I saw that book, the guitar riff and chorus of the song burst into my brain fully formed. Fortunately, my wife captured my half-assed attempt to sing it into her voice memos app.”

While the spark was lighthearted, the song’s emotional core runs much deeper. Towers explains that by the time he began working on the song in earnest — just before bringing it to Edensong — he was reeling from several painful creative fallouts.

“I was going through a very rough series of creative breakups with other artistic partnerships that had turned sour; bad hierarchical relationships that just broke down,” he says. “In one case, a creative partner who was prone to childlike temper tantrums became violent in a ridiculous way. ‘Book Of Complaints’ is mostly told from the perspective of a person like that, who can fight and fight and fight and never reflect. The idea of an emotionally violent person’s idea of reflection being suppressing any actual introspection and just looking in the mirror and saying, ‘Yep, you’re right, you’re always right,’ is kind of the lunacy this song explores.”

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That chaotic energy is something director Wayne Joyner leaned into with the lyric video. Towers praises Joyner’s vision: “What’s so amazing about Wayne’s video is that it captures that lunatic energy, this kind of mythological warfare that elevates ridiculously petty disputes to the level of full-on fantasy novel brutality. It’s also just a visceral, visual feast that explores generative techniques that I find endearing and will be looked back upon as a really cool contribution to a specific moment in aesthetic history.”

Despite the song’s themes of dysfunction, its creation came from a very different place — one of longstanding friendship and genuine collaboration within Edensong.

“Contrary to the situations I’ve just described, I’ve always really enjoyed true peer-to-peer collaboration, and Edensong began being that place for me,” Towers says. “When we started making Our Road To Dust, James invited me to step alongside him shoulder-to-shoulder to craft the musical heart of the record, and we did so in an entirely conflict-free way that builds on a relationship we’ve had since we were five years old. Our Road To Dust is crafted with that spirit of true collaboration and is a record that deeply reflects each of our four distinct personalities.”

With “Book Of Complaints”, Edensong offers a raw and nuanced track that walks the line between the absurd and the deeply personal — much like the very process of making music itself.

With additional recording, sound design and production elements handled from Edensong allies across New York, London, and more, Our Road To Dust was produced and recorded by James Byron Schoen at Firecat Audio in New York City, and mixed by Johan Martin/mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden (Katatonia, Opeth, Amorphis). The record is completed with photography by Kelly Robertson and artwork by Nate Dorr and Ben Wigler.

Hailed as a “a great example of contemporary Progressive Rock” by Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson, Edensong has delighted audiences throughout the US and abroad with their genre-bending blend: a hard driving rhythm section, flute playing that ranges from serenely melodic to avant-garde, lush vocal harmonies, and more than a touch of orchestral ambition. They have supported diverse acts including Kings X, Ozric Tentacles, Pain Of Salvation, Neal Morse Band, and Anglagard, and have headlined their own tours throughout the US, UK, and Canada.

Edensong‘s new album Our Road To Dust in 2025 – their first since releasing the critically adored Years In The Garden Of Years – is the first album crafted as a quartet, and embodies the ambitious, detailed, and eclectic sound they have cultivated over the years, but is far heavier, more focused, and full of infectious melodic hooks.

Edensong will also return to the stage in support of the album, having already confirmed a release show in Brooklyn on May 8th, followed by a special performance at the Terra Incognita Festival in Quebec City on May 17th.