Walker has shared a new solo single titled "BeLeaf," a folk-indebted tribute to the NHL team that finds him name-checking Leafs contract holdout William Nylander, handsomely paid coach Mike Babcock and expressive hockey YouTuber Steve Dangle.
"BeLeaf" features Walker's Protest the Hero bandmate Mike Ieradi on drums, while his Mystery Weekend bandmate Dan Hay comes through with a guitar solo. The track also features work from collaborators Milen Petzelt-Sorace and Dean Hadjichristou.
"The day after the Leafs lost game 7 to Boston (again) I sat down, hungover, with my ukulele and wrote/recorded this song," Walker recalled in an Instagram caption. "After some thought I removed the copious amount of cussing from it and sent it to [Ieradi] to add drums. He suggested I send it to [Hay] for a real ignorant solo, and [Hay] did just that, plus a lot more. After a little bit of advice from Ol' [Petzelt-Sorace] I sent it to [Hadjichristou] who really spit polished this hog, and thus here she be."