New album Sugar Pill out Sep 30

The seventh Saint Solitude album, Sugar Pill, will be released on September 30, 2022. The album’s title track will be released everywhere on July 20 as the first single (pre-save link here).

Sugar Pill’s 11 tracks were prominently written, performed, produced, and recorded by multi-instrumentalist Dup Crosson, and touch on themes of wonder, connection, and community. The album is a direct response to Soul Song Paralytic, Saint Solitude’s deep and heavy 2017 multimedia project that focused on Crosson’s grief after the loss of a close friend, and his reconciling of western culture's numbness to mourning. 

“For the first time, I wrote songs for a mood I needed badly to reconnect with – joy – even when I didn’t always feel that way. It was songwriting for a distant or slightly magical feeling. And then it just got more fun as I asked a ton of friends to contribute,” said Crosson. “The process helped me realize there is a completely innocent value in tricking yourself to become happier. I might still be singing about my typical fodder of confusion, abandonment, and revolution, but hope and awe are the active ingredients.”

Sugar Pill features contributions from José Ayerve (Spouse, A Severe Joy), Austin Lemieux (Cruel Hand), Erika Hansen, and many Bay Area musicians like Aviva le Fey, Ross Eustis (Jazz Mafia), Akiyoshi Ehara (The Seshen), Vega Victoria, and Hannah Glass. It was mastered by Mark Alan Miller at Sonelab and mixed by Neil Godbole (EDBL Music Collective) at Airship Laboratories and Andrew Schatzberg at Landslide Studio. 

The album artwork showcases a new technology called generative visuals by Los Angeles artist David Dickinson.