CRUZH – Hard To Get [Limited 100 copies EP] (2013) *Exclusive*

Swedish AOR trio CRUZH has released a wonderful full length debut last year via Frontiers Music. But one of you requested “Hard To Get“, the EP Cruzh released by themselves some time ago, a piece that indeed honor its name as it was limited to 100 physical copies and now has become a collectors item.

At the beginning of 2013 new Swedish Melodic Rock / AOR band CRUZH was presented to the music press creating some kind of mystery. The only thing shown was an image with the silhouette of the three band members and the first single “In A Blink Of An Eye”.
The track quickly spread on the internet and both Scandinavian and International websites (it was featured here on the blog) and radio stations played it and speculated around the identities of the band members.
A cool promotional move.

Cruzh is Tony Andersson (ex Dawn Of Oblivion) on keyboards and lead vocals, Anton Joensson on guitar & background vocals (also active in Eye and previously in TrashQueen) and Dennis Butabi Borg handling bass and background vocals (formerly in TrashQueen).

“We chose to keep ourselves hidden during the launch” – says Andersson “mainly because we wanted the audience to focus on the music instead of us, but of course also to create a hype and interest in the band. Now, however, we have reached a point where we have chosen to show us to take it all to the next level and reach out to a larger mass.”

Although Anton and Butabi come from metal oriented acts, the guys shared love for ’80s classic Scandi Melodic Rock / AOR sounds and joined forces with Andersson to shape Cruzh’s sound.
All three operate as songwriters and among the influences in their music are Def Leppard, Toto, FM, Winger, Firehouse and Bryan Adams.

You can hear those aforementioned influences in the uptempo melodic rocker “Hard To Get”, the AORish “Stay” and the ballad “In A Blink Of An Eye”, but to me Cruzh has a typical European sound akin Bad Habit, Terra Nova, Grand Illusion, etc.
A really good band and a lovely EP to collect.

You’ve seen it first here, at 0dayrox

1 – Hard To Get
2 – Stay
3 – In A Blink Of An Eye

Tony Andersson – keyboards, vocals
Anton Joensson – guitar, background vocals
Dennis Butabi Borg – bass, background vocals

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