"Am I the greatest joke that's played on all these visions running free?"
Having covered Doo Crowder twice before I guess I shouldn't be surprised to be surprised while listening to his latest offering "Digging the Wrong MIne" but this time mere surprise only scratches the surface. "Digging the Wrong MIne" feels less like a song and more like a four piece opera of sorts beginning with what feels like a church like piece of acapella (but is not) until a beautiful acoustic folk prism splashes out different colors. Then DTWM becomes even more magical amid somber avant pop piano:
"no body else could get this far and still keep going... no body else could drink as much rock star as you..."
These passages borders on an amalgam of Bowie-esque star gazing and Beatles-esque / Lennon psychedelia as dark illuminating orchestrations fill up the spaces:
"why is it what you want to be the special ones, don't you have what you need to be happy, you ain't perfect or all that good...."
Crowder with "Digging the Wrong MIne" had blown my mind, left artful goose bumps of inspiration skating on my skin. Of his creation he says:
"This song is part autobiography & part self parody. Dedicated to the "losers" who struggle to accept ourselves and find our places in society and at the same time, intuitively believe we're meant to be where we are."
So maybe this is a gospel for the outsiders and for the misunderstood. Whatever it is I can't seem to stop listening to it.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUIFaASrLMs
https://www.instagram.com/doocrowder/
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/doocrowder/one-for-the-losers--other-pilgrims
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6rg7wWMBxxd0DdpYSk6e4g
doo crowder (me) makes avant/traditional music (aka "praying in the dark-core") recent songs were inspired by grief, talking to a handful of people, and trying to be sane and alive in 2021-22
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