Featured on forthcoming album UNLEARNING
Out July 26th via Ropeadope Records
‘She conveys more lofty emotion in just a few lines than many artists can muster over a whole record.’ – Bearded Magazine
‘It’s a sultry neo-soul affair, mottled with red-lit trip-hop synths and distant beats – there’s also a vibrant ’90s streak in her voice, recalling the slick tones of R&B icons… While there are similarities to Stateside acts like Frank Ocean, she carves a niche all her own by implementing the very British stylings of Lamb, Portishead and Massive Attack.’ – The 405
‘it’s ethereal, enticing, engaging and beautiful’ – Flavour Mag
C R O W N is a singer / songwriter and possibly music’s best kept secret storyteller. Real name Steph Thom, her artist project C R O W N emerges at the culmination of year’s of behind the scenes work. Having made her mark as creative consultant to artists like five-time Grammy winner Lalah Hathaway and Jaimeo Brown, and co-founder of a musician-led activist initiative #realmusicrebels, her debut solo artist project aims to deliver unspoken truths on womxn’s experiences.
Her forthcoming debut album, Unlearning, serves to deconstruct traditional songwriting and concepts within her genre. Instead of speaking on universal notions of love, C R O W N explores the taboo nuances of emotions from sex, self-expression, and living and loving in the modern age of digital dating and censorship. For the first glimpse into her world, C R O W N reveals a tongue-in-cheek new single “Shit To Do”. Inspired by “fuckboys” – from ghosting time-wasters to the patriarchy at large – ’Shit To Do’ is an anthem, calling everyone to look inward and recognize their own greatness. A lush Neo-soul composition written by C R O W N, her sultry voice takes center-stage a top of a live-band production. Delving into the song’s subject matter, which at times is too-relatable and at other times almost comical, “Shit To Do” examines the crisis of womxn: how we are ever-pulled between the potential we see ahead and the echoes of our under-liberated past (and present).
Featured on Unlearing out July 26th via Ropeadope Records, “Shit To Do” sits amongst seven additional singles also written and performed by C R O W N. The project follows her May 2019 EP, ‘Epicene’ whose music video for “Womxn’s Way” can be viewed below:
“SHIT TO DO”
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The name C R O W N derives from her first and middle names. Picked separately by her father and mother, it transpired that both her given names bear the meaning of the word “crown.” Discovering this symbolized so much for her. A thinker by nature – very much from and of the head (the crown) – she unpacks what she sees around her. This is the driver for her expression as an artist and writer. Music and its surrounding cultural practice has been her life – obsessed by how it captures people, emotion and history, and how it asks the questions often too hard to voice.
Raised in the northeastern Scottish city of Aberdeen, the first in her extended rural family to be reared in the city (albeit a small one), at 17 she left home and moved to Leeds in Northern England to study music and then onto London where she received her masters at the world-renowned university Goldsmiths. She has since lived in Paris, Los Angeles and New York. Up next, C R O W N will be releasing a music video for “Shit To Do” as well as the full Unlearning LP.
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