Lost Crowns formed in London in 2018 and released their debut album in 2019. The are part of the Cardiacs related scene in London and are a genuine supergroup made up of members of Stars In Battledress, Knifeworld, North Sea Radio Orchestra, William D Drake band, Prescott, Scritti Politti. The leader of the band and writer of all the material is Richard Larcombe. They play psyche avant wonky pop songs with density, complexity and witticism.
"Lost Crowns assault the mind with the densely detailed songs of Richard Larcombe (Stars In Battledress). There isn't half a lot going on. Complex drum patterns, bass and guitar parts with a lot of notes and hardly any gaps, the keyboards have to play each other at times there's so much to do, with the clarinet, harmonium and voices weaving through the middle like a twisting country road that can't shift an inch left or right in case it strays onto someone else's territory BUT they play it and sing it with the relaxed air of a druggy jam. Will the head leave the body? It will if Lost Crowns have anything to do with it." - Band facebook bio.
"A rich, unfolding master-craftsman's confection, complex, artfully-meandering songs built from delightfully byzantine chords and arpeggios that cycle through ever-evolving patterns like palace clockwork; accompanied by rich, lazy clouds of hilarious, hyper-literate, wonderfully arcane lyrics; all sealed by an arch, out-of-time English manner which (in tone and timbre) falls into a never-was neverworld between Richard Sinclair, Stephen Fry, Noel Coward and a posh, Devonian Frank Zappa." - Misfit City. From: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=10736
