Clearly, Dup Crosson needs some space.

As the architect and sole songwriter of Saint Solitude, he will be the first to tell you that for every public musical endeavor there is an equal and opposite need to recharge and reflect. The multi-instrumentalist says he’s only musically introverted, but that character still inhabits his output.

2010's Journal of Retreat was home-recorded in a one-bedroom house in a cheap-rent neighborhood in Asheville, NC -- Crosson's on-again, off-again home base f...