Crash Richard

Crash Richard didn't set out to become LA's most quietly compelling sensitive devil. But after years with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros — and co-founding the Deadly Syndrome, whose Dim Mak debut The Ortolan earned cult admiration — the New Orleans native returns with a record that's personal, political, and raw enough to bleed. Sensitive Devil is what happens when a double Gemini with a designer's hands and a street performer's heart turns inward — drawing songs from the hollows of the American plight, the family tree, and the strange weight of staying human in a fraying world.

Born to a Cajun family outside New Orleans, Crash moved west after Katrina with a week of laundry and a string of gigs. In LA, he built sets, played bit parts — including a surreal stint as a youthful Santa Claus in a series of national commercials — and eventually joined Edward Sharpe full-time. Between tours, he quietly shaped a sound of his own. The title Sensitive Devil isn't just a persona — it's a reflection. While tracing his ancestry, Crash discovered his great-great-grandfather was born in Jamaica, met his future wife in Belize, and settled in Louisiana. "It made sense," he says. "Of course this is the family that went from Jamaica to Belize to New Orleans and started over."

That legacy — fractured, resilient, full of movement — echoes through the record's central question: How do you keep feeling in a world built to numb?

The album was recorded with Kosta Galanopoulos in a modest home studio in Eagle Rock, a hillside neighborhood on LA's east side. With a few trusted collaborators, Crash tracked vocals at odd hours, bounced mixes off bedroom walls, and leaned into imperfection. The result hums with intimacy, dust, and persistence.