DMB, Crash
Dave Matthews BandCRASH.
Crash took Dave Matthews Band's unusual mix of acoustic guitar, saxophone, violin, bass and drums and gave it a large studio sound without flattening the group's rhythmic personality.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Image source: Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
Crash was released on April 30, 1996 and contains 12 tracks.
Steve Lillywhite produced the album, continuing the studio partnership begun on Under the Table and Dreaming.
John Siket is credited as recording engineer and Tom Lord-Alge as mixer.
Major recording work took place at Bearsville Studios in New York.
The core lineup was Dave Matthews, Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard, Boyd Tinsley and LeRoi Moore.
Tim Reynolds contributes additional guitar work across the album.
The record includes "Crash Into Me," "Too Much," "So Much to Say" and "Tripping Billies."
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
Crash is a studio album built around a live band's internal conversation, with Lillywhite making room for every instrument rather than forcing the group into a standard guitar-rock arrangement.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
Crash contains twelve songs.
CORE MEMBERS
The classic early DMB lineup anchors the record.
RELEASE
The album arrived on April 30, 1996.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The simple black-and-white visual treatment keeps the packaging restrained compared with the busy arrangements inside, letting the album title and band identity do most of the work.
RESEARCH SOURCES
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DIGGING.
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