Verdugo is Richard Edwards' second solo album after more than a decade leading the Indianapolis
band Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, which he founded in 2004. When health
problems made touring with Margot impossible, Edwards turned inward and began
writing songs "loosely inspired by all one learns, and fails to learn, while dealing with
one's own mortality," as he wrote in a piece for Talkhouse.
Verdugo is completely Edwards, the result of an agonizing stretch of dissolution and,
over time, regeneration. Best of all, it's not an end point, but merely the next station
on a continuing journey. "It's somewhere between that last record and what will
happen after that, and what was going to happen before," he says. "It comes from
three years of having to get really quiet, and gure out what grows out of that." is is Edwards' second solo album after more than a decade leading the Indianapolis
band Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, which he founded in 2004. When health
problems made touring with Margot impossible, Edwards turned inward and began
writing songs "loosely inspired by all one learns, and fails to learn, while dealing with
one's own mortality," as he wrote in a piece for Talkhouse.
Verdugo is completely Edwards, the result of an agonizing stretch of dissolution and,
over time, regeneration. Best of all, it's not an end point, but merely the next station
on a continuing journey. "It's somewhere between that last record and what will
happen after that, and what was going to happen before," he says. "It comes from
three years of having to get really quiet, and fi gure out what grows out of that."
