Twilight Reduction by Saint Solitude
Saint Solitude's newest collection, Twilight Reduction, is the latest submission to rock n' roll's longstanding "lost album" mythos. Recorded alongside 2013's A Crack in the Snow Mortar but hesitantly left unreleased, Dup Crosson's never-meant-be-lost album is finally coming to light some 8 years later.
"I remember proudly proclaiming to friends and the internet that I was going to release two albums in a year – and then my bank account dried up and my focus drifted to other ports," Crosson recalls. "What's funny is my favorite songwriter did the same thing that year, and then abandoned the second one. Getting this out at long last, I can now say I'm beating my heroes at their own game."
Six albums in, Saint Solitude is indeed proving to be a prolific engine. A theme of iconoclasm runs through these 9 tracks, be it in the shock and density of "Hero Worship" or the self-doubt in the emergent ballad "sweetwater honeywine."
A proper companion to the mosaic stargazing of ACITSM, Twilight showcases Crosson's ability to dig rabbitholes in all the corners of his record collection. Lead single "We Buy Balloons" captures adolescent electro-pop effortlessly, and shows that consistently, the only altar that this project kneels in front of is the one of melody. Sing along.
Tracklist
| 1. | Floodplain | 4:16 |
| 2. | Suspect Medicine | 2:13 |
| 3. | sweetwater honeywine | 2:41 |
| 4. | We Buy Balloons | 2:32 |
| 5. | Hero Worship | 2:27 |
| 6. | Little Christians | 1:40 |
| 7. | Flying Machines | 3:56 |
| 8. | Pedestrian | 2:49 |
| 9. | Please See The Flaws | 6:13 |
Credits
written, performed, and produced by Dup Crosson. recorded by Dup Crosson at Stumble Abode 2013-2021. tracks 3 piano and track 5 drums recorded by Mark Alan Miller at Sonelab. track 1 drums recorded by Sami Perez at Tiny Telephone. track 2 drums recorded by Maryam Qudus at Tiny Telephone. tracks 3/4/9 mixed by Akiyoshi Ehara at Sleepy Wizard. tracks 1/2/5 mixed by Keith Milutinovic at Sonic Inception. track 7 mixed by Jose Ayerve at Mobile Womb. tracks 6/8 mixed by Dup Crosson and Akiyoshi Ehara. mastered by Mark Alan Miller at Sonelab. layout by Dup Crosson. photograph by Brendan Bullock.
License
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Saint Solitude is the musical persona of Maine native Dup Crosson.
Depending on the day, or the song, Crosson alternates between the roles of loop artist, multi-instrumentalist, and most importantly, songwriter. He combines his favorite elements of Britpop, shoegaze, post-punk, and psychedelia into accessible and immediately appealing pop songs hereby known as BITTERSWEET FUZZ.