Saint Solitude

Saint Solitude is an American rock band formed in 2006 in Asheville, NC. Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dup Crosson is the only consistent member,[1] with lineups changing from year to year after the project toured as a one-man looping act from 2007-2009.

Saint Solitude has released two EPs and four studio albums. In 2010, the band's debut album Journal of Retreat was released via Alive & Well Records to modest media attention in the Southeast.[2] By Some Great Storm followed in 2011, also released by Alive & Well Records. After becoming a free agent in 2012, Crosson moved back to his native Maine where he self-released A Crack in the Snow Mortar in 2013 and Flux Camoufleurs, Volume I, a collection of instrumentals, in 2015.

Saint Solitude is now based in Oakland, CA.

Other work

Over the years, Crosson has played with numerous bands in Asheville, NC, Maine, and Oakland, CA, including The Late Greats, The Cardinal Heart, Noise in Print, To Whom It May Concern, Her Ruined Majesty, CHRY, Absentia, To The Wedding, and The Bribes.

In 2005, Crosson helped write and performed on several tracks from Luke Rathborne's debut album, After Dark. The two were introduced by a common friend years before and played together in the band Decker in high school.

In 2014, he played drums for Aly Spaltro's project Lady Lamb on a support tour for Typhoon (Spaltro and Crosson worked at the same DVD store in Brunswick, ME).

LP5

Crosson is currently collaborating on an audio-visual presentation of his fifth record for October 2017, which will be the project's first concept album.

References

  1. ↑ Hill, Corbie. "Saint Solitude: Don't Leave Home Again". Shuffle Magazine. Shuffle Magazine.
  2. ↑ See, Lydia (September 2, 2009). "Sound Track". Mountain Xpress.
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