Crybaby Apprentice began, like many things, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic around march 2020.

While it started as a larger group of old pals trying to collab on some music together, the band quickly reduced to me and my friend Andrew (of Think Twice, Dublin).

Pat Coyle (also of TT,D) often contributed drum tracks once song structures were mostly finished.

Historically Andrew and I had been pretty into writing repetitive, droney music and this was the time to try something different. Andrew often referred to it as "horizontal" song writing – the idea was basically to oppose our previous patterns by focusing on long phrases and chord progressions while limiting any obvious repetition.

We were lucky that our first single got picked up and added to a tape compilation, STARGATE 02 by Infinito Audio Network. That label asked us if we had more so we took our time writing a themed EP around the ideas of pulp horror from the perspective of a villain. I don't know if we took too long or if they just didn't like the EP over at Infinito, but we eventually released the EP Pathwork on our own.

Still active, Crybaby Apprentice is a delight of complex collaboration and experimental challenges. I'm looking forward to writing more with Andrew under this project