Crash Richardis serving up some “romantically heady” heart and soul with his new music.
The singer-songwriter, 43, shared his third single “Routine for Most” — and accompanyingmusic video— exclusively with PEOPLE on Friday ahead of its wide release.
Crash Richard.Eliot Lee Hazel
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As for dissecting the song itself, “It’s when you don’t know each other,” he shares. “When two people don’t know each other, and they can’t really break beyond that. You never really come together.”
“And also it sort of talks about a lot of my experiences in the world, whether it’s my first job in L.A. or getting ripped off buying weed on the street in New Orleans,” the Big Easy-born artist adds. “It’s like these connections we have over time.”
Crash says the idea for the chorus is his “favorite” of his new musical series. “Lyrically, the song aligns because we all hustle and have been hustled, and sometimes in love, we don’t always see eye to eye.”
He sings on the song’s hook: “There were those times when you and me saw differently / We thought we would never be again / Not so sympatico when we saw differently / Routine for most acquaintances.”
In the video, the camera follows a woman strolling down the street then pans into a record store where Crash sifts through a sea of vinyl, with his long hair pulled up under a flat-bill cap. As the shot crops in closer, he sings and turns to the camera mid-verse.
Looking relaxed on his record store roam, he grabs a rose, sings into it, then gets tossed another apple. Toward the end of the song, we see that he has worked there all along. Crash is seen sweeping up, turning off the light to the shop and adjusting the roses as sunlight beams in from the door. He walks out, locks the door behind him and walks off.
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The overall “lounge-y” feel of Crash’s new solo album “is romantically heady, I think, in a beautiful sense,” the former “Magnetic Zero” tells PEOPLE of the LP, noting that he wanted to “find an intersection between folk and jazz.”
Any One Thingreleases Nov. 3 on all streaming platforms.
source: people.com
