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<a href="spotify:artist:6CKMgHCNRQ5bQTV0Nx4LuM" data-name="Crawford Mack">Crawford Mack</a> is a Glaswegian indie/alternative artist known for melodic, narrative-driven songs that balance darker subject matter with moments of release.
Growing up in Glasgow, he later moved to London to study jazz at the Guildhall School, developing a deeper interest in harmony, arrangement and songwriting.
After his studies, Crawford began playing regularly, his early live shows that led to support slots with <a href="spotify:artist:79hrYiudVcFyyxyJW0ipTy" data-name="The Paper Kites">The Paper Kites</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7z2avKuuiMAT4XZJFv8Rvh" data-name="Tom Walker">Tom Walker</a> & <a href="spotify:artist:0bmF1w9eyJrY4CHyjpTQOW" data-name="Damien Dempsey">Damien Dempsey</a>, alongside sold-out headline performances at venues including King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, The Glad Cafe, The Bedford and PizzaExpress Live Holborn.
His debut album <a href="spotify:album:2ISQ4EZ7XMgk8TJrYQVilZ" data-name="Bread & Circuses">Bread & Circuses</a> produced by Jamie Evans of <a href="spotify:artist:2zN0yuH21eVHRb3wzKkvU3" data-name="Mexicolas">Mexicolas</a>, marked an expansion from early folk-rock and jazz influences into a broader, more exploratory sound. In the years that followed, he released a run of singles supported by BBC Radio 6 Music and The Quay Sessions.
More recently, Crawford has focused on working closely with <a href="spotify:artist:2NuOv1zE8M6rA9zcO62Lzq" data-name="Rory James">Rory James</a>, Luke Maher - a longstanding bandmate - and Jamie Evans over extended periods, developing new material alongside drummer Alex Reeves (<a href="spotify:artist:0TJB3EE2efClsYIDQ8V2Jk" data-name="Elbow">Elbow</a>). That process led to Boxes, the first release in a new run of work that opens into a deeper, more sustained body of songs, setting the direction for the project going forward.
Growing up in Glasgow, he later moved to London to study jazz at the Guildhall School, developing a deeper interest in harmony, arrangement and songwriting.
After his studies, Crawford began playing regularly, his early live shows that led to support slots with <a href="spotify:artist:79hrYiudVcFyyxyJW0ipTy" data-name="The Paper Kites">The Paper Kites</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7z2avKuuiMAT4XZJFv8Rvh" data-name="Tom Walker">Tom Walker</a> & <a href="spotify:artist:0bmF1w9eyJrY4CHyjpTQOW" data-name="Damien Dempsey">Damien Dempsey</a>, alongside sold-out headline performances at venues including King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, The Glad Cafe, The Bedford and PizzaExpress Live Holborn.
His debut album <a href="spotify:album:2ISQ4EZ7XMgk8TJrYQVilZ" data-name="Bread & Circuses">Bread & Circuses</a> produced by Jamie Evans of <a href="spotify:artist:2zN0yuH21eVHRb3wzKkvU3" data-name="Mexicolas">Mexicolas</a>, marked an expansion from early folk-rock and jazz influences into a broader, more exploratory sound. In the years that followed, he released a run of singles supported by BBC Radio 6 Music and The Quay Sessions.
More recently, Crawford has focused on working closely with <a href="spotify:artist:2NuOv1zE8M6rA9zcO62Lzq" data-name="Rory James">Rory James</a>, Luke Maher - a longstanding bandmate - and Jamie Evans over extended periods, developing new material alongside drummer Alex Reeves (<a href="spotify:artist:0TJB3EE2efClsYIDQ8V2Jk" data-name="Elbow">Elbow</a>). That process led to Boxes, the first release in a new run of work that opens into a deeper, more sustained body of songs, setting the direction for the project going forward.
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