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HURNS' ROCK MUSIC IN STEP WITH MARCH BACK TO THE OFFICE
CHICAGO, IL (2023) – Welcome back to the workplace! Phones ring and ping, clocks tick, doors clank…accompanying a chromatic riff that takes one back to a bricks and mortar workplace. The Office, a sonic welcome cheer for millions of people heading back following a pandemic and changed economy, is found on Robert J. Hurns album Crabby Road, fournd at https://bit.ly/35ouKSH .
(at left Robert Hurns discusses Crabby Road on recent Kansas City radio show)
Hurns, a former member of Chicago bands Eight Ball, Radio Whip, the Texas Chainsaw Experience, and the Tortfeasors, plays all instruments on Crabby Road. He wrote, performed, and produced Crabby Road, available on more than 36 streaming platforms worldwide including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and more. To date, Hurns’ music has been downloaded by people in 90 countries.
The album is a story of a day in the life of many, from waking up to journeying to the office and back home. From the first song Down the Crabby Road/Subway/Metropolis to Sunset on the Crabby Road to The Big Sleep, Hurns gets into your heart and mind and tells a story familiar to millions getting back from two plus years of remoteness. For example, standout track The Office musical structure is an epic descending chromatic scale, incessant and inevitable, dragging one down into the depths of the job. The Office was once described as “the song that didn’t make it onto Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club album.”
“The pressure of the workplace is captured well by Hurns’ The Office with the phones and pulsing music,” WZRD radio of Chicago noted. “It’s sly, wiggly syncopated industrial pop performed on brightly toned synths and electric guitar by Hurns.”
The first track on Crabby Road titled Down the Crabby Road/Subway/Metropolis envisions the journey to the office from home to subway to urban city. War and More War are almost prescient in their prediction of that daily headline you glimpsed in the lunchroom. The aural chaos of Sonic Magazine provides the perfect soundtrack for greeting fellow workers in person and dancing after work. If a Police Call Box is your workplace, then The Time Traveler is your anthem.
After a hard day at work, the commuter is rewarded with Sunset on the Crabby Road and Sleep.
“For me,” one worker returning to the office said, “I woke up at 6:30 a.m., showered, dressed, and played loud rock music on my drive to work. Like the old days.”
Reviewers have said: “Crabby Road is a vast soundscape punctuated with driving angular lines of sonic goodness and small movies for the ears. I see these songs being part of a soundtrack for the next Bond or Batman film.”
“The song Sunset on the Crabby Road kept going on and on in my head for a long time. Time Traveler was my favorite.
“Down the Crabby Road/Subway/Metropolis is a very sophisticated track. Wild Boar was a winner with me.”
“Sonic Magazine is a great dance song, one that I really, really liked.”
Hurns, a multi-instrumentalist, trained under a former NBC studio organist as a youth. He gravitated to other instruments including the guitar, bass, drums, clarinet, saxophone, flute, and violin. Growing up during Beatlemania, he embraced the British invasion, surf, metal, and punk music, while nurturing a love for movie soundtracks.
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For more info or a copy of the CD contact diane@turnermorrisoncommunications.com.
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