New York, NY (Top40 Charts) On March 31, Richard Edwards will release his debut album Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset on Joyful Noise Recordings. The album 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).
Today, Stereogum premiered "Lil Dead Eye-d," the second song to be released from the forthcoming album, and called it "...a folk-pop ballad with a gorgeously gentle arrangement, like Ryan Adams' 'Oh My Sweet Carolina' as reimagined by Iron & Wine."
Stream "Lil Dead Eye-d" here:
"I wrote this song a couple days after landing in Los Angeles for the final sessions for Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset. I wasn't feeling very good mentally and was missing someone. Once the song was finished, it felt like I could put the guitar away for
awhile 'cuz the album didn't need any more songs," said Edwards about the song. "I reckon I said the last thing I needed to express for this record."
Edwards recently penned a feature for the website The Talkhouse about his battle with a rare stomach condition, divorce, and forthcoming album.
Previously, he released "Disappeared Planets" which was embraced by BrooklynVegan and Paste Magazine.
This weekend, Edwards will perform for the first time in over three years at the annual GAS Feed & Seed Festival. On April 1, he will host an album release show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2014, Richard Edwards (then frontman of Margot & the Nuclear So and So's) was diagnosed with C. diff - a rare and potentially fatal stomach ailment. Shortly after releasing Margot's final album he lost over 40 pounds, was to forced to abandoned a near sold out tour, and spent the next couple years recovering and writing a new record about absence. In 2015, after the dissipation of a longtime partnership & marriage, he underwent surgery on his abdomen and re-wrote the record about absence. The result is Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset, Edwards' first post-Margot solo album.
Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset is currently available for pre-order via Richard Edwards' official site and Joyful Noise.
Tracklist:
1) (beware the golden fang)
2) Lil Dead Eye-d
3) Git Paid
4) Fool
5) Disappeared Planets
6) Postcard
7) Management of Savagery
8) When You Get Lost
9) Lemon
10) Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'
11) Sister Wives
12) Pornographic Wives
13) (chaka khan)
14) Moonwrapped
Tour Dates:
2/16-18: Davenport, IA - GAS Feed & Seed Festival
4/1: Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade
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