It’s off their forthcoming first album in 15 years, but on the strength of the new single ‘You Can’t Turn Away’ from the legendary Crow, it’s clearly business as usual. And a jolly good business it is too.
‘You Can’t Turn Away’ blasts off with jagged buzzsaw guitars, trembling and shuddering, before Peter V Fenton’s urgent vocals enter, swaggering and assured like a pirate on a rollicking ship in a thunder storm. The vocals are furnished with delicate harmonies as an anthemic thrum takes over in the chorus. It’s an ambulatory sonic hurricane that is thoroughly satisfying and ultimately so very cathartic. The lyrics are poetic and raw:
I can’t lead you through this garden
I can’t shine a light down this path
And tho the question just reads like one letter
All we know is the question remains
You can’t turn away
You can’t turn away
It’s a spectacular return indeed:
The release coincides with news that the band will be releasing their new album ‘Hold Sway’ through the inimitable Cheersquad Record & Tapes in the not too distant future.
Crow are songwriters Peter Fenton and Peter Archer on guitar and vocals, with bassist Jim Woff, and Andy Marks on drums.
You can catch them in the wild in April:
Easter Thursday 2 April
Cheersquad Records & Tapes present…
CROW
with Bagful of Beez + Grace Mitchell + Billy Peril
The Workers Club, Fitzroy, Vic
– Tickets here
Good Friday 3 April
CROW
with DJ Centipede & the Earthworms
+ Billy Peril
Social Club, Balnarring, Vic
– 3-6pm, free entry
Easter Saturday, 4 April
CROW
with Hugo Race and Michelangelo + chEEsEs
St Kilda Bowls Club, St Kilda, Vic
– Tickets here
