Concept albums have been a staple of rock n’ roll ever since the 1960s. And while the songs on such records typically thread together some sort of themes or story, it’s often done in a loose, sometimes imprecise kind of way. That’s not the case with Long Island’s Crash The Calm, who have fabricated something equivalent to a film or a classic novel with their latest release, A Town Named Nowhere Vol. I. The band’s sophomore full-length effort takes you back in time to the drought-afflicted Southwestern United States during the Great Depression when life was rough and reality was often cruel. For the album, they have created a fictitious town and brought it to life, with a whole cast of characters who have their own intersecting storylines that you follow through the duration of each song. P...