{"id":2448510,"date":"2019-09-10T07:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880890"},"modified":"2019-09-10T07:28:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:28:59","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-noah-gundersen-crystal-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-noah-gundersen-crystal-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Noah Gundersen, \u2018Crystal Creek\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NOAH.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>While conversations about genre constraints often play out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844\/\">upper echelons of pop<\/a>, it turns out that small independent artists have to fight many of the same battles.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Take Noah Gundersen. In 2015, he released an album titled<\/span> <em><span>Carry the Ghost<\/span><\/em> <span>on the label Dualtone, which has had some success with packaging Americana for the masses (see: the Lumineers).<\/span> <em><span>Carry the Ghost<\/span><\/em> <span>\u201cfit nicely into the Americana landscape,\u201d Gundersen says. \u201cBut after making that record, I didn\u2019t want to be pigeonholed as a singer-songwriter. So I started to dabble in other things, expand the sound. It was the beginning of a long trajectory of me not being able to fit in any one particular place.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gundersen often ends up far from simple acoustic balladry on his latest album,<\/span> <em><span>Lover<\/span><\/em><span>, which is out on Cooking Vinyl, a label that ranges more widely than Dualtone. \u201cCrystal Creek\u201d in particular shows Gundersen\u2019s varied interests, with vocal processing that makes Gundersen sound like Phil Collins one moment and a tormented robot the next.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCrystal Creek\u201d started six years ago in Gundersen\u2019s basement. \u201cSongwriting requires a lot of patience,\u201d he says. \u201cThere have been plenty of songs I\u2019ve probably ruined by trying to force them into submission. Thankfully I didn\u2019t do that with this one; I just let it ferment.\u201d In time, \u201cCrystal Creek\u201d turned into \u201ca song about feeling my age, feeling burned-out at times, and failed expectations,\u201d shot through with anguished jolts of falsetto.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A few years ago, Gundersen might have put \u201cCrystal Creek\u201d out under a different name. \u201cOn the last record [2017\u2019s<\/span> <em><span>White Noise<\/span><\/em><span>], people were a little confused about the direction I was taking,\u201d he says. \u201cThere was a moment where I was thinking about doing a couple projects \u2014 keeping the Noah thing on the singer-songwriter side and maybe doing this electronic project.\u201d Instead, he decided to embrace the confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/noah-gundersen-crystal-creek-880890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While conversations about genre constraints often play out in the upper echelons of pop, it turns out that small independent artists have to fight many of the same battles.&nbsp; Take Noah Gundersen. In 2015, he released an album titled Carry the Ghost on the label Dualtone, which has had some success with packaging Americana for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:05:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}