Music
Get Gone
Full band record, released April 2023
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Reflections on Get Gone:
"the perfect soundtrack for a lazy summer day." - Sheryl Hunter, Greenfield Recorder; read the full piece here
"Befitting its title, Get Gone glides and rambles down the emotional gamut of highways and byways of singer-songwriter Dennis Crommett's state of mind, with detours onto dirt roads lit by signposts of discovery and reflection. Meanwhile, the spacious musical arrangements pulse and breathe with open-air wanderlust." - Jonathan Perry, RPM: Life In Analog
Strong songwriting marks two new Valley albums - read the full Daily Hampshire Gazette piece here
The Shipping Forecast
Instrumental, released December 2022
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Eight improvised guitar anti-hero instrumentals to help us both chill out.
Keep the Channel Open
Instrumental, released October 2021
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Music from this record was featured in the documentary The Oystering Life
I Am Not Done With My Changes
Instrumental, released March 2020
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The title of this album comes from "The Layers" by poet Stanley Kunitz. I turned 40 while creating this album, and despite that age marker, am choosing to think that none of us is ever fully formed. And though "I lack the art to decipher it," as Kunitz puts it, I know there is more to come, and that everything is always moving.
Straighten Up
5 songs, released September 2020
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With this EP, I set out to record a handful of songs that didn’t exactly feel like “me." I set a few rules to keep things interesting, and wrote about characters, pulling from overheard conversations at convenience stores and liquor stores, where there are a lot of high hopes about scratch-off tickets. And so here we have Straighten Up; 5 songs, 5 characters (one of them being me, in the clarity-seeking fifth track).
Patterns in a Familiar Room
Instrumental, released April 2017
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Music by Dennis Crommett, with additional guitar on track 5 by Leo Hwang. Mastered by Dan Richardson up in the basement.
The Coast Road
10 songs, released November 2014
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It's been over three years since I released In the Buffalo Surround, and in these ten songs (as in many others left in pieces) you'll hear the sounds of relationships, work, alcohol, darkness, clarity -- and most likely, cars, chairs, kitchen sounds, and the like, as this was recorded in my Northampton apartment during early mornings and late nights.
In the Buffalo Surround
11 songs, released December 2010
Label: Signature Sounds/Soft Alarm
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"elegant, understated eloquence" - Boston Globe
Reviews: No Depression | Hartford Courant
The Evening Sorrow
11 songs, released December 2006
Labels: Pigeon Records (USA), Rounder Europe
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"sparse, heavily acoustic and daydreamy... he is undoubtedly a gifted songwriter" -American Songwriter
'Crommett never rushes to the point, opting instead to build lush but never overbearing melodies that wash over the listener in sleepy waves" - Northeast Performer
"it will transform your silent car" - Daily Hampshire Gazette