“No Sleep No Sleep” premieres today on Popdust. The track is from TriumAvium, the forthcoming album from Vox Eagle.
When he was 4-years-old, Andy Crosby, aka Vox Eagle, began studying classical piano. His mother was his tutor. Before long, rock, blues, and gospel drew him in like a magnet. By the time he was 13, he was in a band. At 16, he was playing the bar circuit, aided by a fake ID. When he played, record label A&Rs perked their ears up. In no time at all, he signed and began laying down tracks for an album.
“We started recording an album with a major label in Sydney, however half way through the record our A&R guy died, which kind of left me up the creek without a paddle. It was time to give America a shot,” explains Crosby.
Coining the name Vox Eagle, a reference to the voice of American culture, Vox Eagle dropped his debut EP, Flaming Paradiso, in 2017, garnering international airplay, and hitting the Top 10 on the charts in Uganda. Along the way, he won a Sony PlayStation Unsigned Artist of the Year Award, and landed deals with VW, Jim Beam, Toyota, Smirnoff, and Coca Cola, along with music production for Sony, Disney, and Universal.
Crosby moved to Colorado, where he bought some land and built a recording studio – The Eagles Nest – with a 32-channel Oram British EQ console. The studio and his engineering skills secured sessions with Phoenix and The Vines, SoundCasino, and Skinny Dipp.
“No Sleep No Sleep” opens with snug blipping synths and skanking guitars. The funk-lite pop groove shakes with infectious harmonics and Crosby’s tight tenor, accented by dazzling background vocals. A thumping kick-drum and reverberating bass infuse the music with a potent retro feel.
Crosby’s voice, ranging from a suave falsetto to husky sonority, assumes a quasi-rapping flow that’s simultaneously tough and buoyant.
“No Sleep No Sleep” is tough and buff pop music, jam-packed with cool, funky flavors and a contagious beat.
Randy Radic is a Left Coast author and writer. Author of numerous true crime books written under the pen-name of John Lee Brook. Former music contributor at Huff Post.
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