About Us
Short Bio
You could call them genre-fluid. Pretty Crimes creates music that ranges from indie rock to art pop, drawing additional influences from electronic music, country, Motown, and much more. Based out of Raleigh, NC, the band consists of Dan Irving, Mike Freeman, Chris Niver, and Alan “Chico” Marines. Their first album, You Have Your Mind, explores different sonic territories while searching out the meaning of belief. Their second record, Every Moment All at Once is out now.
Long Bio
Raleigh band Pretty Crimes call themselves "genre fluid" when it comes to their style, and their sophomore album, Every Moment All at Once seems to agree with that statement. With a base of blues rock, main songwriter Dan Irving has explored almost every format of indie music one can think of since the band's inception.
Their debut album, You Have Your Mind, was a genre-hopping collection of songs released in 2020. Burning through everything from Belle and Sebastian-style indie folk to dream pop-esque electronica to all manner of 90s alt rock the band found a sound through their first album, but not a genre. It seems, with Every Moment All at Once, they plan to keep it that way.
'Every Moment All at Once' is about the threads of connection people have with each other, and how all of these threads come together to form the sum of one's identity. We wanted to explore how, through the relationships in our lives, we discover different facets of ourselves; some that we love, and some that are hard to grapple with that we wish to change.
The threads of connection also wind their way through the album. Similar to a Blind Melon moment, if a listener was expecting all the songs on Every Moment All at Once to sound similar, the teaser EPs put that notion to rest quickly and efficiently. Toggling between Zevon-style indie pop with opening track "Still Waiting," or "Plans" and the more stylized, Polyphonic Spree-meets-grunge style of "New Years" or "Knowing Silence" before the electronic, Switched on Bach-like interlude of "If You Are There" takes the album on a decidedly more indie rock folk path, this album connects all the dots before its end, both musically and emotively.
Intrinsically entertaining and fun on top of being deep, evocative and high-concept, Every Moment All at Once has a little something for every musical taste, and that might be its biggest accomplishment in terms of connection: connecting the artists with their fans and connecting music fans with different tastes with each other.
Press
We have been featured in Infrared Magazine, Rock at Night, Obscure Sound, Splash Magazines, The Big Takeover, EMCEE Network, We All Want Someone to Shout For,Conversations About Her, Breaking and Entering, The Further
Discography
Happier Endings (single) |
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You Have Your Mind |