Review Fix Exclusive: Crane’s Bobby Crane Talks Creative Process, Goals And More

Review Fix chats with Crane’s Bobby Crane, who discusses his first EP and more. Breaking down his creative process and goals for the future, Crane lets us know exactly what he wants to accomplish in music.

Review Fix: How’d you get involved in music?

Bobby Crane: If you’re asking about when I first started to enjoy music and bang on a drum set. It was probably around 6 years old! If you’re talking about when did I first take the leap of becoming a professional artist, then I would have to say about a year and a half ago. I always messed around making beats, playing piano/guitar/and drums, but never took it serious until I realized I was actually making stuff that I believed was worth letting other people hear. I was hesitant about it, but I am so glad I moved forward with it.

Review Fix: Who influences your sound the most?

Crane: My biggest influences will always be past artists that have tailored my love for music today. However, there’s also current artists that I believe are doing amazing things and they definitely motivate me to put out my best work possible. If I had to narrow them down to a few oldies and few modern, I would say… Coldplay, Stone Temple Pilots, RHCP, The Cure, Sugar Ray, Tom Petty, Third Eye Blind, Limp Bizkit, Chainsmokers, Jon Bellion, The 1975, Eric Church, and I’m certain there are a million more!

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Crane: My process is very solo driven. I prefer to be at a computer, have logic open with my midi keyboard connected, and I’ll usually just dabble around until I find a progression or rhythm I love. Next, I’ll start singing aloud over it until I find something that catches my own attention. Then I create some drums, and layer after layer…a song is born. Doesn’t mean it always ends up being a winner, but that’s how I usually go about it.

Review Fix: What makes your new EP special?

Crane: What makes it special to me is that it is my first EP. It embodies my first completion of a project that I thought would never be finished. Sounds cheesy, but it meant a lot to me to do that. On a broader scale, I feel our EP is special because we managed to cross over multiple genres into one EP, and I believe we did it pretty well. For example, most people that review it tend to love a different song on it than the next. We really didn’t limit our EP behind one central song which allowed for the listener to find their own favorite.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who’s never heard you before?

Crane: I would say that our sound is Alternative music that definitely swims through today’s pop sounds. Some are bangers, and some are sentimental, but there’s definitely a dark and heavy texture to the sounds.

Review Fix: Bottom line, why should someone buy it?

Crane: Great question. Buying our EP is the ultimate way to support CRANE in continuing to make creative music projects. But let’s assume you don’t care about supporting artists, then you should buy it because the EP is something anyone can relate to. The general them of broken hearts, and toxic relationships is something that everyone of us goes through, and this music was my medicine through my trial, so let it be yours.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of the year?

Crane: Our goals for the remainder of the year are to finish three more music videos, release a Cover Song EP of songs we’ve completely reimagined and reworked, and to play many more shows so we can meet the people that share in our love for this type of music.

Review Fix: What do you feel you have to do to make your dreams in music come true?

Crane: The most important thing you have to do in order to make your dreams come true is to be persistent and consistent. You need make sure that on your low days, that you won’t give up, and that no matter what you’ll keep creating and putting content out there. It’s impossible to brand, or be heard if you’re not getting out there.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Crane: What’s next for us on top of our goals of creating content, is that we are releasing some really amazing songs that were co-written with some amazing artists. One song to definitely look out for is “Evil”, which I co-wrote with artist Kyle Reynolds. The song should be released in late September and it’s honestly what I am excited about most.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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