It’s a big week for Louisiana’s Sweet Crude. Following a premiere of single “Mon Esprit” on PopMatters, the band has now released their new EP Critters. The EP serves as a preview of the band’s debut LP Créatures which is slated for release later this year. Rounding it all out, the band is also kicking off on a string of tour dates starting tonight in NYC at Rockwood Music Hall and following with an appearance at Northside Festival and two dates in Canada.

 

The band, boasting surnames like Marceaux, Arceneaux, and Chachere, seeks to reconnect with their lineage in the context of 4-part harmonies, tribal rhythms, and pop hooks. “We’re making the pop music that we’d otherwise come up with given our influences. We’re just singing a lot of the time in Louisiana French. We want to show that the language is still alive and kicking, and that it sounds great in any genre,” says primary lyricist Sam Craft, “Our grandparents learned French, but our parents never really communicated with it, so now I feel it’s on the youth to preserve the tradition. It’s wonderful that there are so many Cajun bands singing in Louisiana, and we wanted to do the same thing but with our original music.”

 

Sweet Crude had a breakout 2015 and are following with an impressive 2016 so far. They were recently named “Best Rock Band” at the Big Easy Awards and performed on the main stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival as the openers for My Morning Jacket.The band is keeping the momentum with the release of their new Critters EP and the forthcoming Créatures LP. The band has also secured upcoming appearances at festivals such as Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg, Gasparilla Festival in Tampa, and Savannah Stopover.

 

Tour Dates:

6/8 – New York, NY at Rockwood Music Hall

6/9 – Brooklyn, NY at Brooklyn Bowl (Northside Fest)

6/10 – Kingston, ON at Tett Center

6/11 – Montreal, QB at FrancoFolies de Montréal

 

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