With the climate crisis reaching a crucial crossroads, Montreal-based folk singer Brian Campbell has penned a passionate call to do whatever one can to save the planet. From devastating fires internationally to Earth's unnerving rise in temperature, Campbell's latest single "Planet on Fire" is a proverbial eye-opening anthem on what needs to be done from big business on down the line. Yet the natural feeling of the terrific single is a bit outside the folk musician's wheelhouse.

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"It’s quite clear that 'Planet on Fire,' a blues rock protest song, is an outlier: most of what I do is acoustic folk," Campbell says of the single. "Extreme circumstances bring on extreme measures, one could say. As a protest song, I also admit that the song feels more partisan than I am. Its broad-stroke distinctions of rich and poor, it’s pointing at “the enemy” in their corner offices who 'refuse to see,' may lack nuance, but unfortunately far too many corner office denizens really do live up to the stereotype, and far too many of the rich and powerful really 'don’t give a damn.'"

Campbell says "Planet on Fire" originally started as a simple riff back in 2018, but nothing came to him immediately. At that time, cataclysmic fires in Fort McMurray, Alberta, were fresh memories as fires in Greece and California were out of control. The following year, fires in Australia and Brazil raged, leaving scorched swaths of land in their wake. News of ice caps melting also made headlines. In short, it was a stark reminder of the climate crisis.