The Crash – Reasons To Sing

I haven’t heard this song in a long time but after hearing the tail end of it in “Urban Outfitters” last night I felt compelled to post it. The band, who decided to part ways in 2009, was a pop-rock band from Turku, Finland, originally influenced by Britpop but later taking its lead from a diverse range of genres including Motown, Disco, New Wave and 80's rock . Following reasonable success in Scandinavia and Central Europe, the band turned its attention to the USA where interest was being shown by several major record companies including Capitol Records, Maverick Records, Warner/Atlantic and Hollywood Records. A short trip to the US followed in March 2005, where the band performed a packed show at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas leading to Billboard Magazine picking The Crash as one of the ten acts to catch that year, along with Bloc Party and M.I.A.. The band never received much airplay here in the states but "Reasons To Sing" from the "Pony Ride" album was featured in the show “Gossip Girl”, leading to some net download popularity.

Band Members:
• Teemu Brunila – vocals, guitar
• Samuli Haataja – bass, vocals
• Erkki Kaila – drums
• Samuli "JJ" Jokinen – keyboards



References:

Official Site

MySpace

Discography:

• Comfort Deluxe – 1999

• Wildlife – 2001

• Melodrama – 2003

• Selected Songs 1999–2005 – 2005

• Pony Ride – 2006