crash’s new album Hardly Criminal is streaming on American Songwriter right now a week ahead of its release on May 6. Hardly Criminal is an eclectic amalgam of all the music that has come into crash’s path since his childhood in Louisiana. The diverse musical landscape influenced crash heavily, yielding songs evoking 60’s soul, intimate folk and old time country. Produced and engineered by the multitalented Ed Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros lead guitarist, Mark Noseworthy, (and featuring friends from the Zeros, Dawes, Bright Eyes and more…).
Stream Hardly Criminal by crash at American Songwriter: http://www.americansongwriter.
Check out the video for “Motion Animal,” the album’s first single, below:
Hardly Criminal will be recognizable to fans of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros where crash has served as a backing vocalist over the last two years (before joining Edward Sharpe, crash was the lead singer for LA’s The Deadly Syndrome, who released three albums). In concert lead singer Alex Ebert turns the microphone over to crash for that one song and it has become a high moment of the Zeros set. The Orange County Register wrote in a show review that it was “one of the night’s biggest highlights: the old-school jumper “Motion Animal,” an unreleased track showcasing percussionist crash [Richard] on lead vocals, blasting a killer tenor that would make any Stax soul man jealous.”
Upcoming crash Tour Dates
May 02 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bootleg Theatre (Record Release Show)
May 10 – San Francisco, CA @ SF Oysterfest www.oysterfestsf.com
June 03 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom*
June 04 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Notes Outdoors*
June 05 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium*
*supporting Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
