Cruzie Beaux – Bandwidth http://bandwidth.wamu.org WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:23:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 Outputmessage, Cruzie Beaux http://bandwidth.wamu.org/outputmessage-cruzie-beaux/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/outputmessage-cruzie-beaux/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2016 08:20:15 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=68411 Songs featured Sept. 10—11, 2016, as part of Capital Soundtrack from WAMU 88.5. Read more about the project and submit your own local song.

Cruzie Beaux – Mrs. Dick Van Dike
Warren Wolf – Howling Wolf
Brûlée – Flamingos Above
Birdlips – Under Crooked Trees
U.S. Royalty – De Profundis
The Mind Set – Head Times II
The Beanstalk Library – Drawing Glasses
The Internal Frontier – The Spell
Caustic Casanova – Your Spirit Festooned On the Bedposts
Peanut Butter and Dave – Open Letter
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes – Blue Moo
Q and Not U – Soft Pyramids
Brian Forehand – House of Sax
Tom McBride – Cutting Up LA
Arthur Loves Plastic – Metro Morning
Theater of Soul – Slow Drag in the Woods
Constant Alarm – Privy to Your Pain
Frau Eva – Cosmophobia
G-Flux – Voodoo Instrumental
Outputmessage – Try Again

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After Leaving Drop Electric, Cruzie Beaux Finds Fresh Ideas In Electronic Pop http://bandwidth.wamu.org/after-leaving-drop-electric-cruzie-beaux-finds-fresh-ideas-in-electronic-pop/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/after-leaving-drop-electric-cruzie-beaux-finds-fresh-ideas-in-electronic-pop/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:00:18 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=53402 With a title like “Mrs. Dick Van Dike,” a student of pop culture might ask, is the new song from D.C.’s Cruzie Beaux a wry take on nostalgia? A feminist critique?

Turns out no — the electronic-pop tune is just about recording as a solo artist.

“I feel like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, just like, sitting here pressing all these buttons,” says Cruzie Beaux’s Kristina Reznikov, 28, who named the song after the classic film’s one-man band, Bert. (The misspelling of “Dyke” is intentional, she adds.)

“Mrs. Dick Van Dike” (listen below) sounds remix-ready, riding on the tempo of its piano hook and dipping into valleys of ambience. Mixed by Mat Leffler-Schulman of Mobtown Studios, its mellow vibe diverges from Reznikov’s relatively energetic first batch of songs, released as Demo 1. Though Reznikov worries she’s not sticking to her sound, the new track still unearths an uneasiness beneath her wailing vocals.

That tension might be familiar to fans of Reznikov’s previous work with Drop Electric. Reznikov left D.C. indie-rock band in mid-2014, but she says writing alone hasn’t been a difficult adjustment.

“It’s relaxing for me to sit in my room for five hours and play a beat,” Reznikov says.

Outside of a band, the songwriting process comes from the same place it always has: a compulsion to write. The Cleveland Park-based musician says her songwriting itch can get so powerful, it reaches “the point that even when I’m talking to people, I’m just thinking about a song that I’m writing,” she says. “It can get pretty annoying.”

If all goes according to plan, Cruzie Beaux will release her debut full-length this winter.

Cruzie Beaux plays Saturday at Fête De La Musique DC.

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