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"Liverpool-based singer Dan Croll made a huge splash at this year's SXSW, which marked\u00A0not only his first time performing at the behemoth music festival but also his first time playing in America. After wooing crowds in Austin, he put on a bunch of sold-out shows opening up for Chvrches (another band you definitely need to know!), and is now resting up before a summer of worldwide touring. Not bad for a dude who decided to try his hand at music on a whim when his rugby career didn't pan out.\n\nWe talked to Dan about his music inspirations, U.S. debut, and favorite albums of the moment. Plus, stream the new Fake Brothers remix of \"Compliment Your Soul.\"\n\nWhat made you decide you wanted to pursue music?\n\n I'd say there were a few albums. The main ones from my younger years were Graceland by Paul Simon, Blue by Joni Mitchell, Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon &amp;amp; Garfunkel, Thriller and Dangerous by Michael Jackson, The Stranger by Billy Joel, Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys.\n\nWho would you most like to collaborate with?\n\n That's a pretty endless list, and rather hard to pick one in particular! But a few examples would be Burt Bacharach, Paul Simon, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Deerhoof, Kendrick Lamar, The Knife, Zun Zun Egui, Caribou, and it goes on and on and on.\n\nWhat albums or songs do you have on heavy rotation right now?\n\n Anything by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday, Jai Paul\u2014he only has three tracks, but all three are incredible, Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, m.A.A.d City, The Very Best's MTMTMK, Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dreams, Toe's The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety, Kvelertak's Kvelertak, and Rodriguez's Searching for Sugar Man.\n\nWhat influences your sound the most?\n\n Family, girls, and traveling.\n\nWhat's been your band's biggest oh-my-gosh-this-is-really-happening moment?\n\n Whilst touring America in March that \"this-is-really-happening\" moment hit me every single day. It was an incredible experience, and it was made even more incredible by fact that it was mine (and the band's) first-ever time in America, so I now cannot wait to do it again in June!\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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