Limited Hangout

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Artist(s): Crisis Actor

Title: Limited Hangout

Virus #: Virus-545

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Crisis Actor are three musicians who simply ask, is there such a state as too paranoid? 

Hailing from Los Angeles, the band has been on the rise relentlessly since forming in 2019 (9 Months or so before the Pandemic), and draws from a collection of members who have all made a name for themselves on their own.  On guitar is Tony Knox, host of the radio program "No More Heroes" on KXLU; on bass is Zach Crawford, whose been heard deejaying at various shows in the Los Angeles punk scene under the name Paul Cinnamon; and on drums is Jonathan Ihejeto, a hip-hop artist known as Jet 2! 

When not busy taking over the world individually, they've been infusing the dark, slashing, pre-hardcore sounds of L.A. punk like Dangerhouse and Slash with the first-person, working-class undercurrents of The Clash or Sham 69. Since releasing their debut LP False Flag in 2022, Crisis Actor have been non-stop and eventually caught the ear of the Jello Biafra, who felt their brand of paranoia would fit right in at Alternative Tentacles Records! Reminding him of OG 4AD, with some DKs, Wipers, High Vis, and Spiritual Cramp mixed in, he knew they would fit right in on the label.

The result is their new album, Limited Hangout where Crisis Actor not only evolved their sound, but stepped even deeper into the themes of chaos and paranoia they had explored on False Flag, creating the perfect soundtrack to surf the waves of chaos brought on by absorbing successive catastrophes both macro and micro. 

“Limited Hangout is a reflection of where we are today, and what that sounds like," reflects Ihejeto, "Hi-hat patterns reflecting the randomized events, melodies that ring deep, and a bassline to solidify its existence, each song is a piece of one common goal evolved, giving a voice to the voiceless, and that’s art.”

Crawford expands further, “Over the course of writing the musical portion of the record I was interested in expanding further into the experimentation and improvisational jams that we would pull from to compose the actual songs. We would hammer out a 15 minute long session and listen back later for bits that we liked and work on our arrangements, but it was the improvisation that also shaped my approach to the lyrics. The vague sort of powerlessness in existence as history feels like its just going by although our actions do have some sort of bearing and weight on things, but more often than not only by sifting through the wreckage of the past things be come clearer."


WATCH: Crisis Actor "The Big Fall" from Limited Hangout 

"We incorporated more diverse sounds in our production on this record, just mixed in with the rest of the music," says Knox, "We explored more with call and response and swapping lead vocals between the three of us, often bringing our own unique perspectives to the message of each track we split vocals on, along with our own voices. At the end of it, we felt we came up with something that was chaotic but directed, flowing fast like a flood or a tidal wave. We were just out there surfing it!"

The results shine through on Limited Hangout. Bringing together an amalgamation of influences into this new but familiar sound, Crisis Actor has created something that much like themselves, is more then even the sum of it's very considerable parts. 

"I think one of my favorite parts of the now two and half years process of getting the record out has been tracking the starkly different styles we each have has they bounce around each other and make more and more sense each time I hear them", agrees Crawford, "I’m still able to learn about Tony and Jon even after thinking I knew all there was to know about the songs when we made them.”

**Pre-order Limited Hangout now, in stores everywhere on Friday, November 27th**

Limited Hangout is available in wide release black vinyl and in limited artist edition on red vinyl available at Crisis Actor's shows and in the Patreon Exclusive Online Store, available by joining the Alternative Tentacles Records Patreon at Virus Tier or higher! Get more information here! 

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