![]() ![]() "It's not like it was like, Let's make an accident album," Brotter says. It's why they chose the song as the album title - “there was a bad energy following around," Ramani says - but everyone is also hesitant to so firmly link the event to the entire project. ![]() “If you see the album as a chronological story of the past two years, that's definitely a traumatic ending,” she says. When I bring it up at the cafe, they’re initially hesitant to talk about it, but Ramani, who writes all the lyrics, reveals that the accident was what motivated her to pen the title-track and closer to the album. Everyone was OK, but they had to postpone the remaining tour dates. tour, Brotter, Gilad, and a friend that was selling merch, Manny, got into a serious car accident in Montreal. In April 2018, towards the end of their first full U.S. ![]() The touring also served to inform the new record theme-wise, though some moments during that time come through more opaque than others. "There's still the same amount of detail and information, we dig deeper.” " is zooming in one level further," Brotter says. In June, they finally shared Jinx, their debut album that functions as a sort of spyglass, magnifying all the colorful and strange details that populates their universe. When I first stumbled upon the video last summer, the band only had two EPs out - a total of seven songs that were all magically catchy - hardly any press, and a tour schedule that seemed solely fueled off the small but devoted fanbase that'd begun organically forming around their tunes online. Bassist Jesse Brotter adds with a grin: “With 'Locket,' I think he definitely tried to induce some insanity in us.” “All the effects and stuff were own vision of interpreting the music,” Ramani explains. Directed by one of the band's close collaborators, Haoyan of America, it's a great introduction to the group’s addicting brand of brain-wavy, psych-rock via surreal images of shrinking heads, dilating eyes, and toy food. Crumb’s most popular video is “ Locket,” a surreal mini-movie that kind of reminds me of a live-action PES video. ![]()
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