Majesty Crush are reclaiming their spot in shoegaze’s history books
thefader.comWhen Majesty Crush first started making music together they used two words to guide them: Covert (cool and quietly curious) and important (impactful and far-reaching). “We wanted our record to be the one that was on the turntable of people just like us,” Odell Nails III, the band’s drummer, says.
The Detroit band recently reissued its only studio album, 1993’s Love 15, plus a collection of singles, EPs, and rarities under the title Butterflies Don’t Go Away.
They view the Numero Group reissue as an opportunity to celebrate the work of their late frontman David Stroughter and to wrestle back the narrative of being one of rock music’s sliding doors bands.
It is Stroughter’s lyrics, a meld of sex and violence that focused on characters living on the fringes of society, that still stand out to this day.
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