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Saint Solitude

Flocking Disaster

About Me

Saint Solitude is the ongoing solo project of Dup Crosson.
photo by Benji Sanford
"Think Thom Yorke's stunning bleakness, implying windblown shores and decaying cities, but view it with an optimistic eye and scatter references to Catholic dogma throughout. Really, really stunning." Hawk Season
The Disaster Stories EP is now available!!
Order from CDBaby:
and iTunes:
It's also available in Asheville at Harvest Records, Static Age Records, Voltage Records
, and the Grove Corner Market in the Grove Arcade. You can also order one through me or come to a show of mine (see blog above).
For booking inquiries, e-mail me at [email protected] , message me here, or contact me through Sonicbids:
View Saint Solitude's EPK
I also sing in a band called The Cardinal Heart .
See also the pages of Luke Schurman and The Late Greats for other projects I've been involved with over the past few years.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/19/2006
Band Members: Written and performed by Dup Crosson.
Influences: Morrissey's gladiolas, Ian McCulloch's hair, Richey Manic's razorblade, Billy Corgan's birthmarks
Sounds Like: "No, Ia...I think it sounds like a tank, near the pyramids, in Egypt somewhere...a Nazi tank with those weird symbols on the side of it, y'know? Listen to those drums...it's like a tank...TCH-BOOM! TCH-BOOM! That's what it's gonna be like...like a tank..."
Record Label: looking for one!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

my first b-side

Added a new song today: "Rolling Hills, Rolling Eyes" This one was meant to be on the EP and was written at the same time as the others (in Lund), but it just didn't make the cut. Maybe due to the mel...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:52:00 PST

An update, aye

Hello to you- I'm so incredibly charmed at the prospect of the coming weeks and months...my freedom from college is days away, and thus, the time allotted for SS and TCH will be increasing many-fold ...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:43:00 PST

Take Five article

Simply for posterity's sake, here's that article that was in the Take Five a few weeks back.Currently working on shows for the future and sending out the EP for reviews. The band is keeping me well bu...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:50:00 PST

Saints on the 103.5 radios

You can now request your favorite Disaster Stories tracks on the following radio stations in NC:WPVM 103.5 Asheville andWCOM 103.5 Carrboroand more stations to come!...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:47:00 PST

Disaster Stories available in Asheville record shops

You can now get yourself a copy of the Disaster Stories EP at the following locations in Asheville, NC: Harvest Records Static Age Records Voltage Records the Grove Corner Market (in the Grove Arcade)...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:48:00 PST

Disaster Stories EP out now!!

It's official: my debut CD, the Disaster Stories EP, is out today. The tracklisting is as follows: 1. Heroes Turned to Whores 2. Saints + Soldiers 3. Join the Light 4. The Laugh Track 5. On A City The...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

Into the 2008

Damn, I stayed in one city for all of 2007.  That is an acheivement for me. There was much to discover here despite my constant complaints about the Asheville music scene. I barely read any books...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:52:00 PST

Stories from the white

I'm in Maine. New York tomorrow. Back to Asheville on Friday for my 5 last months in the South. Time to get to work. The EP is going to be called DISASTER STORIES. It'll have 5 tracks and will be fini...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:28:00 PST

EP update

Happy Black Friday (and Buy Nothing Day) to you! Hope you are all either shopping frenetically for meaningless trinkets or abstaining from it altogether and fasting like me. The EP is about 95% record...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:48:00 PST

Landslide recording

Good news from these frosty Asheville mountains...I've been over at Landslide Studio the past few days getting the majority of my upcoming EP recorded. My friend Andrew Schatzberg has been manning the...
Posted by Saint Solitude on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:56:00 PST