Richard Edwards Shares 'Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'' from Debut Solo LP

The Line of Best Fit said "...the track swells and builds in all the right ways; from sensitive verses where it's just Edwards and a simple backing of guitar bass and drums, to a chorus which is filled with harmonies, organ and a passionately pained vocal that's an outpouring of heartbreak, anger and loss...It's a beautiful, difficult mess."

"I wrote this song when I was really, really sick in the gut. I had come to believe that being sick made me a bad person. I could feel relationships in my life suffering, but it was hard to do much about it when I was suffering to the extent that I was physically," said Richards about the song. "I used to sit in my office and listen to 'Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father' over and over at night and feel really hopeless. It was a hard time. But my little daughter kept treating me the same, not looking at me like I was sick, and she got me through it, I s'pose. She wanted to sing on the record and this song felt like the place. She howls all through the bridge. So that's, quite obviously, my favorite part."

Today, Edwards relesed the song "Strange," his contribution to Our First 100 Days, a charity subscription release that shares one rare, unreleased, or exclusive song during Trump's first 100 days in office. The release has featured artists such as Angel Olsen, Mitski, and Whitney, and raises funds and awareness for organizations supporting causes that are under threat by the proposed policies of a Trump administration. The project was started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days.

"Strange" is available now via Bandcamp: https://ourfirst100days.bandcamp.com/track/strange

Recently, Stereogum premiered "Lil Dead Eye-d," the second song to be released from the forthcoming album, and called it "...a folk-pop ballad with a gorgeously gentle arrangement, like Ryan Adams' 'Oh My Sweet Carolina' as reimagined by Iron & Wine."

Edwards recently penned a feature for the website The Talkhouse about his battle with a rare stomach condition, divorce, and forthcoming album.

Previously, he released "Disappeared Planets" which was embraced by BrooklynVegan and Paste Magazine.

Watch a moving trailer for the album via YouTube. On April 1, he will host an album release show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY.

In 2014, Richard Edwards (then frontman of Margot & the Nuclear So and So's) was diagnosed with C. diff - a rare and potentially fatal stomach ailment. Shortly after releasing Margot's final album he lost over 40 pounds, was to forced to abandoned a near sold out tour, and spent the next couple years recovering and writing a new record about absence. In 2015, after the dissipation of a longtime partnership & marriage, he underwent surgery on his abdomen and re-wrote the record about absence. The result is Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset, Edwards' first post-Margot solo album.

Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset is currently available for pre-order via Richard Edwards' official site and Joyful Noise.

Tracklist:

1) (beware the golden fang)

2) Lil Dead Eye-d

3) Git Paid

4) Fool

5) Disappeared Planets

6) Postcard

7) Management of Savagery

8) When You Get Lost

9) Lemon

10) Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'

11) Sister Wives

12) Pornographic Wives

13) (chaka khan)

14) Moonwrapped

Tour Dates:

4/1: Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade