Crash the Calm

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The year is 1930. A candle is lit in church to illuminate the choir’s sheet music. The candle gets knocked over, the church burns to the ground with a woman inside, and along with it a town withers as massive sky-blackening storms threaten to swallow the earth whole. The inhabitants barely hang onto hope, wondering if the god they’ve been praying to has turned its back on them and left them behind... Welcome to A Town Named Nowhere. The sophomore full-length from Long Island post-hardcore outfit Crash The Calm, A Town Named Nowhere transports the listener to the drought-stricken Southwest of the 1930s with an all-consuming vividness that rivals the scope of an epic period-piece film or great literary classic. Pushing far beyond conventional notions of the “concept album” as we know it, Crash The Calm hasn't merely brought a fictitious town to life, but instead created an entire world out of sound. Imagine the brooding, introspective sprawl of millennial classics like Circa Survive’s Juturna or Thrice’s The Alchemy Index crossed with the songcraft and grandeur of The Wall and that’ll give you some sense for the kind of journey A Town Named Nowhere takes you on. We are the soulless ghosts, the ones that remain…