The Crash Motive (formerly “Omnisoul”) is a five-man outfit that create a refreshing and completely unique sound, is poised to explode into the national consciousness with their debut album, <I>Things That Could Be Said</I> in much the same way they have in their native Delaware.

The driving force of The Crash Motive is front man and singer/songwriter Derek Fuhrmann. “I really hadn’t thought much about a music career until high school,” he recalls, “and even then I only discovered I could sing by accident — I wanted to be an actor. I was told that to be an actor, I had to learn how to sing. I wanted to see if that was possible, and people started telling me I was good.”

Entering college at the University of Delaware exposed Fuhrmann’s to classic rock acts like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin as well as guitar-centric outfits like Radiohead and Dave Matthews Band. By his sophomore year he’d begun playing guitar, “and I almost immediately ... read more »