New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Late last month, Richard Edwards (frontman and principal songwriter of Margot & The Nuclear So and So's) released his debut solo album Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset via Joyful Noise Recordings (Kishi Bashi, Surfer Blood).
Today, Billboard.com premiered the video for the album's single "Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'" from the new album.
Watch the video for "Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'" via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iub7Pk_Z2_g
"I don't have much free time between being a single dad, bellyaching, and music making so we had to fit filming a video into a more or less "normal" Saturday in my life. With roller skates added. High concept," Edwards explained.
The album debuted at #83 on the Billboard Current Top 200 chart, #4 on the LP Vinyl Albums Chart, and #2 on the Alternative New Artist Album Chart.
Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset was produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Beck) in Los Angeles, and features a stellar lineup of musicians including Pete
Thomas (Elvis Costello) on drums and guitar work from Mike Bloom (Jenny Lewis).
The album was inspiried by a traumatic and tumultuous time in Edwards life that involved a diagnosis of a rare and potentially fatal ailment called C. diff and a divorce that soon followed. Edwards recently penned a feature for The Talkhouse about this time in his life and you can read an impassioned biography about the album written by his close friend Rhett Miller.
The album has been embraced by The Line of Best Fit, BrooklynVegan, Indianapolis Star, Paste Magazine and more. Team Coco premiered the album in its entirety.
AllMusic praised the album for its "elegant, twilight-hued tone" and "weighty emotional rawness." Stereogum called "Lil Dead Eye-d," a "...folk-pop ballad with a gorgeously gentle arrangement, like Ryan Adams' 'Oh My Sweet Carolina' as reimagined by Iron & Wine."