Brian Fallon (Gaslight Anthem) Announces The Horrible Crowes Side Project

Well, it looks like Brian Fallon has finally made good on that promise for a project based around “nighttime music.”  The Gaslight Anthem frontman has officially announced via his blog that he has started a brand new side project titled The Horrible Crowes.  Here’s an exert from the post:

“Anyway, so here’s the deal… the “night time music” is myself and Mr. Ian Perkins, and what we’re doing is writing songs and making demos at the very moment. We hope to put out a full length record sometime this year, before it gets cold again, I don’t know with whom, or when exactly it will come out. But the point is, it’s coming out. We’re calling ourselves The Horrible Crowes.

The name comes from a poem called the Twa Corbies, which means, “two crows.” Check it out, it’s a dark commentary on life. A knight dies, his woman runs off on him, and two crows sit by discussing how to devour his remains… pretty gross. Pretty accurate about how we struggle all our lives for gain and greed, etc, etc and in the end, to quote Tom Waits, “we’re all gonna be just dirt in the ground,” while the spirit moves on and can’t take a bit of the material with it.

Yet I’ve found we all do this, and mainly in relationships, we end up the devourer or the devoured. That’s what we’re singing about, it’s the darker side of soul music, it’s slow, it slithers, and it’s raw. At the same time, the melodies and pianos are a juxtaposition to the topic material because it’s eerily soothing. I’m really proud of what’s been coming out and we’ll see how it goes, but it’s in the works and it’s heading for an actual record.”

The band has also launched an official Facebook page to follow their progress, the first of which is that they have already entered the studio for recording.  Check out the original blog post here.