When he started Crywank he'd never played guitar before. He learnt two chords, wrote 'Welcome To Castle Irwell', 'Thomas Saunders Gangchant' and went from there. On his earliest recordings he embarrasingly americanized his voice to try and emulate his favourite musicians, and I'd record with different people through different devices (hence the different volume levels on this release). None of these songs where properly released so they've all been compiled. They where all recorded between 2009-2012.
artwork by psgsummers
guitar on tracks 7,11 and backing vocals on 5 by Sam Cichuta