New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, Richard Edwards released his debut solo album Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset via Joyful Noise Recordings. The album is now available on Spotify and for sale via Edwards' official site and Joyful Noise.
This Saturday, April 1, Edwards will celebrate the album's release with a sold out performance at Rough Trade NYC.
The album has been embraced by The Line of Best Fit, BrooklynVegan, Indianapolis Monthly, Paste Magazine and more. This week, 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."
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).
Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset 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 website The Talkhouse about this time in his life, and you can also read an impassioned biography about the album written by his close friend Rhett Miller.
Recently, Edwards relesed the song "Strange," with Our First 100 Days, a charity subscription release that shares one rare, unreleased, or exclusive song during Trump's first 100 days in office. The release has featured artists such as
Angel Olsen, Mitski, and Whitney, and raises funds and awareness for organizations supporting causes that are under threat by the proposed policies of a Trump administration. The project was started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days.
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:
4/1: Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade
