Richard Edwards Premieres "Lil Dead Eye-d"; 'Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset' Due 3/31

On  March 31,  Richard Edwards   will release his debut album  Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset  on  Joyful Noise Recordings. The album was produced by  Rob Schnapf  (Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Beck) in Los Angeles, and features a stellar lineup of musicians including  Pete Thomas   (Elvis Costello) on drums and guitar work from  Mike Bloom  (Jenny Lewis). 
 
Stream "Lil Dead Eye-d"  HERE
 
"I wrote this song a couple days after landing in Los Angeles for the final sessions for Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset. I wasn't feeling very good mentally and was missing someone. Once the song was finished, it felt like I could put the guitar away for
awhile 'cuz the album didn't need any more songs," said Edwards about the song. "I reckon I said the last thing I needed to express for this record."
 
Edwards recently penned a feature for the website  The Talkhouse  about his battle with a rare stomach condition, divorce, and forthcoming album. 
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Watch a moving trailer for the album via  YouTube.

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This weekend, Edwards will perform for the first time in over three years at the annual GAS Feed & Seed Festival. On April 1, he will host an album release show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY.
 
In 2014, Richard Edwards (then frontman of  Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s) was diagnosed with C. diff - a rare and potentially fatal stomach ailment. Shortly after releasing Margot’s final album he lost over 40 pounds, was to forced to abandoned a near sold out tour, and spent the next couple years recovering and writing a new record about absence. In 2015, after the dissipation of a longtime partnership & marriage, he underwent surgery on his abdomen and re-wrote the record about absence. The result is Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset, Edwards’ first post-Margot solo album.
 
Richard's friend  Rhett Miller  has written an impassioned biography about the new album which you can find on his website  HERE. 
 
Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset  is currently available for pre-order via Richard Edwards'  official site    and  Joyful Noise.
 
Tracklist:
 1) (beware the golden fang)
2) Lil Dead Eye-d
3) Git Paid
4) Fool
5) Disappeared Planets
6) Postcard
7) Management of Savagery
8) When You Get Lost
9) Lemon
10) Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'
11) Sister Wives
12) Pornographic Wives
13) (chaka khan)
14) Moonwrapped
 
Tour Dates:
 
2/16-18: Davenport, IA - GAS Feed & Seed Festival
4/1: Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade
 
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