You're A Crusher / drocan!

by Dan Drohan

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
first pressing of Dan Drohan's You're A Crusher / drocan! LP

Includes unlimited streaming of You're A Crusher / drocan! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 30 days

edition of 100

$25 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

30

releases

Get all 30 Dan Drohan releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of MR. SMURD, Original Motion * Sample Packs *, Original Motion, Doscientos Veinticinco, DIGI DRO, The Part I'm on Right Now, A R P, Slow To Remember, and 22 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$75.74 USD or more (25% OFF)
You're A Crusher / Drocan ! CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
limited 100 first pressings of You're A Crusher / Drocan !

Includes unlimited streaming of You're A Crusher / drocan! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out
You're A Crusher *1 of 1* Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
a custom 1 off debut Cassette of You're A Crusher album plus some B-side cuts from that era of production from Dan Drohan

Includes unlimited streaming of You're A Crusher / drocan! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

1.	Leave It Loading 02:39		buy track
2.	Pictured 01:31		buy track
3.	We Like To See 03:52		buy track
4.	SQUINT 01:37		buy track
5.	CUPOFDRO 03:04		buy track
6.	Pretty Sure 04:10		buy track
7.	Stretchy Bear 01:19		buy track
8.	You're A Crusher 02:50		buy track
9.	Strength 02:31		buy track
10.	The Garden 03:19	lyrics	buy track
“The Garden” Lyrics (What?) How did it feel when you had just Pulled up on the top soil And They did not let you blossom Oh no! If to love is what there is Realize how we start as kids, Reach for time and tell him your list At the sight of creation there is a rodeo And when you stop to listen it’s really Tokyo (Really, what?) How did it feel when you had just Pulled up on the top soil And They did not let you blossom (Watch me, Watch me)
11.	Tokyo 03:15		buy track
12.	Keno 01:32		buy track
13.	Passwords 02:23		buy track
14.	Through The Night 03:14		buy track
15.	105 02:07		buy track

about

Like so many of us surviving in the gig economy, Dan Drohan has to be nimble, flexible and adaptable in his musical life. He moves between worlds with ease, lending his drum and percussion skills to such varied projects as psych rock outfit Olden Yolk, the heartfelt folk of Maggie Rogers’ Blood Ballet (an album on which he also served as co-producer), and the most recent recordings by future pop project Dreamaway. And in his own work, he remains happily unsettled, releasing cracked electronic tunes under the name Bermuda Kid and spacious avant-pop group Comfort as well as several releases of his home-recorded drum improvisations and production experiments.

So it should come as no surprise that Drohan’s new album is as slippery and hard to pin down as anything he has lent his name to over the past decade. You’re A Crusher / drocan! presents the best of his varied talents and serves as a kind of musical marker to represent the changes his life has gone through recently.

The first half of this project—You’re a Crusher—was put together slowly over the course of two years while Drohan was still living in Brooklyn with his family. He moved to New York in 2011 after several years studying at the Berklee School of Music and playing gigs around Boston. One of the projects he took on after his relocation was élan, a quartet with guitarists Bobbie Johnson and Derek Smith, and vocalist Élan Orr. With their help, he developed the YAC material, recording demos with the group that he would then tweak and manipulate on his laptop while in the van or on airplanes during his touring gigs or quietly in his kitchen in the mornings while his son slept.

The tracks that came out of Drohan’s efforts don’t feel worried over nor have they lost any of the raw inspiration that helped spark them to life. “We Like To See (Earth)” feels like a shortwave radio jumping between stations—the pleasant ping of a synth melody getting pushed aside by a fuzzy groove wowing in and out of focus. Opener “Leave It Loading” lets a deep bass pattern flood the speakers while Drohan’s fluid drumming spars with it playfully. And the whole thing flows and zig-zags like a DJ set cooked up by a seriously warped mind.

Nearly everything about drocan! works as the polar opposite of YAC. The collection of tunes was born from the rush of excitement that came from Drohan working with a new collaborator: multi-instrumentalist Mike Cantor. The two were introduced when Cantor DJ’ed Drohan’s sister-in-law’s wedding and immediately hit it off. They met up soon thereafter at Drohan’s studio space in his new home in Massachusetts and instantly started cooking up songs together. Over the course of the month of January 2020, drocan! was brought to life.

For this project, Drohan was challenged to feature vocals more prominently. It makes for an even headier experience, a mix of dreaminess and clarity amid he and Cantor’s glistening productions matched each step of the way by their blend of live drums, MIDI triggered tones, modular synth flutters, and programmed beats. Asian and Latin rhythms collide joyously (“Passwords”); dreampop is given a trap makeover (“105”) or gets completely glitched out (“Tokyo”). Nothing is sacred, everything is allowed.

You’re A Crusher / drocan! is the perfect album for our modern era—a period where the accessibility to nearly every piece of music ever recorded has created a new generation of adventurous listeners. Drohan and his many collaborators are reflecting this era by creating boundless, border-free sounds that welcome any and all curiosity seekers. They refuse to put limits on themselves so why should you?

-Robert Ham

credits

released June 26, 2020

Daniel Patrick Drohan (BMI)
Writer, Producer, Drums, Percussion,Computer, Drum Programming, Vocals, Sounds, Mixing (All Songs).
Mike Cantor (BMI)
Co-Writer (10-13,15), Co-Producer (9-15), Mixing (10-15), Vocals (9,10,15), Moog (9,10,11,14,15), Guitar (11, 14, 15), Bass (12,14), Drum Programing (15), String Programming (13),Ringmod and berhinger deepmind 12 (12)
Bobbie Johnston - Guitar (1,3,6,8)
Elan Orr - Vocals (3,6)
Derek Smith - Bass Guitar (1,3,6,8)
Anna Cantor - Vocals (15)
Porchea Tipton - Vocals (15)
Marc Felish , Dominion Mastering - Vinyl Mastering
Charles Pinel - Executive Producer

license

about

Dan Drohan Massachusetts

Dan Drohan is an American drummer, producer, composer, and visual artist. He grew up in Rochester NY and studied at Berklee College of Music in 2011. Dan has worked as a drummer and/or producer with Maggie Rogers, Nick Hakim, Tei Shi, Wilsen, Ang Low, Olden Yolk, Sid Sriram, Uni Ika Ai, Ben Talmi, Rocco Delucca, Carrtoons, Maral, Middle Part, Day Wave, Rich Hinman, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT ... more

contact / help

Contact Dan Drohan

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Dan Drohan, you may also like:

hybtwibt?
by Space Afrika

supported by 5 fans who also own “You're A Crusher / drocan!”

i haven't been through what you've been through, but i want to understand everett
go to album
G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

supported by 4 fans who also own “You're A Crusher / drocan!”

haha, they said pee *ascends the staircase of holy light* Jay
go to album
Suite for Max Brown
by Jeff Parker

supported by 4 fans who also own “You're A Crusher / drocan!”

A most hypnotic/comforting/freeing/fresh jazz record. hoopboyhandro
go to album
Mine Eyes Dazzle
by Vic Dimotsis

Kinetic, wide-ranging songs from Vic Dimotsis that include everything from sound collages to worked-up snatches of Persian music & more. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 13, 2016
go to album
Truest
by Anysia Kym

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 26, 2024
go to album
NOVATURIENT
by feend

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 1, 2014
go to album
Universal Beings
by Makaya McCraven

supported by 4 fans who also own “You're A Crusher / drocan!”

I was brought here after listening to a live performance of Makaya's on you tube. I instantly loved the song Holy Lands so much that I had to see if the album version was the same rendition as the live one. Then I listened to the whole album! Universal Beings is a just a groove... It's a mix of traditional and something new, very nice. pandr1900
go to album