Pages may technically be classified as an EP, but Big Wreck has never done anything on a small scale. The first chapter of a mini-album series culled from a pool of 18 songs recorded in 2023, Pages is a hefty six-track dispatch that handily reasserts the Toronto band’s reputation as both the most muscular and musically adventurous of the ’90s CanRock contingent. Those hoping for more of Big Wreck’s patented post-grunge anthems will immediately be taken aback by “In Fair Light,” which greets us with a hypnotic flurry of xylophone-like chord patterns that feel closer in spirit to Steve Reich than Soundgarden, before taking us on an extended ’80s-prog odyssey for nearly eight minutes. Following that fearless opening salvo, Big Wreck is free to show off every trick in its toolkit, be it pummeling nu metal (“Bail Out”) or majestic, multi-sectional Zeppelin-esque folk tales bookended by perky synth-rock passages (“Bird of Paradise”). But for all its genre-bounding eclecticism, Pages still scores a direct hit to the heart with “Weightless,” the sort of arm-swaying acoustic sing-along that will surely make nostalgic fans wistfully declare: I really love that tune.