Premiere: Crook, ‘Fault’

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crook-zacksumner The first single from new L.A. quartet Crook is as beautiful for what it isn’t as what it is. “Fault” inhabits the modern synth-pop world that allows its purveyors to transform four-minute songs into widescreen cinema. But absent much of the squishy production gimmickry that make what are ostensibly soul songs sound machine-made, “Fault’s” skeletal parts and slow-motion drama stand apart. Crook is helmed by singer-songwriter Daniel Crook, a Napa Valley native who grew up drawn to artists such as Nina Simone, David Bowie and Janis Joplin and, after playing the Bay Area band Mære, migrated to Los Angeles. The singer-keyboardist is joined in the lineup by multi-instrumentalists Angelica Tavella, Vince Gutierrez and Kevin Eagle Oliver, and the choral background vocals on the EP are the work of Emily Gold, Chris Acosta, Megan Slack, Rick Escareno and Gutierrez. The single is out next week, with the audaciously titled EP “In the Company of Legends” to follow.

||| Stream: “Fault”

Photo by Zack Sumner