Elsie

VINYL FORMAT. Comes with a digital download code! Most of us know Brian Fallon as the frontman for the Gaslight Anthem, an act who started out in Jersey basements and slowly built their way up to headlining New York's Radio City Music Hall. Despite the success Fallon has had with his main band he's always loved decidedly less rocking acts such as the Afghan Whigs and Tom Waits. The Horrible Crowes – his new side-project alongside longtime friend Ian Perkins – is his lounge-friendly tip of the hat to the acts who have shaped another side of his musical vision. The idea for Horrible Crowes started at the end of last year and was formed out of the bond that Fallon and Perkins developed through their mutual love of music. The band headed into the studio earlier this year to put these songs to tape with the help Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan, Lucero) - and although the band is technically a two-piece, they also enlisted Steve Sidelnyk (drums and percussion), the Parkington Sisters (strings and accordion), Ted Hutt (guitars), Adele Jensen (trumpet) and The Gaslight Anthem's other members to add more texture to the sound of the album.

Elsie is also the most personal release of Fallon's career and while the Gaslight Anthem's music is loaded with characters and iconography, this album sees Fallon stripping back the metaphors to put it all on the line. While drug addictions, ex-girlfriends and religion all creep their way into these songs, Elsie isn't a linear album as much as it is a catalog of experiences that are conveyed in a way that was equally as cathartic for Fallon to create as it will inevitably be for his listeners to hear.