{"id":45017,"date":"2026-04-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=45017"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:23:32","slug":"mark-crozer-announces-new-album-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=45017","title":{"rendered":"Mark Crozer announces new album \u2018Homecoming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lead Single You and Me on the Astral Plane<\/em> is out now<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Some artists say they’re done. Mark Crozer actually meant it \u2014 until he didn’t. The guitarist, who’s been a cornerstone of The Jesus and Mary Chain<\/strong> for nearly two decades, had firmly decided last summer that he was retiring from releasing music. Then nostalgia crept in, as it always does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bout of childhood reminiscing about growing up in Oxford, England led Crozer to write Everything Must Change<\/em>, a dark wave confessional that cracked open the floodgates. One song became ten, and now we’ve got ‘Homecoming’<\/strong> \u2014 out April 24th<\/strong> on boutique indie label Dusty Mars Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album is a lushly layered rainy-day record \u2014 loops, samples, effects-drenched guitars, tribal beats, and Crozer’s spectral yet somehow soothing vocals all weaved together into a 10-track meditation on loss, grief, and endings. Think candor with a sharp British wit on the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lead single, You and Me on the Astral Plane<\/em>, is exactly the kind of goth-pop gem you’d want kicking things off. It’s a dark-wave love letter voiced by a ghost speaking to their still-living partner \u2014 equal parts eerie and tender, with more than a little wry humor tucked in. Crozer draws on the same textural, detached cool he’s refined alongside The Jesus and Mary Chain, landing somewhere in the neighborhood of The Cure<\/strong>‘s The Head on the Door<\/em>-era romanticism. The macabre never sounded so warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I know that you still hate me \/ Pretty much all of the time \/ For leaving you stranded \/ Alone and abandoned \/ Believe me honey so do I.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, that’s a dead person apologizing for dying. And somehow it slaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crozer himself puts it plainly: “I feel that it’s taken me until very late in my ‘career’ as a songwriter to reach a place where I’m genuinely happy with what I’ve produced \u2014 hence the title Homecoming. This bunch of songs feels like it belongs together, and I’m happy with all of them. I don’t normally feel that way. At best, I usually feel ambivalent.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relatable, honestly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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