The shimmering high point of Crazy P’s 2024 album Any Signs of Love is a song called “Human After All.” It’s a showcase for lead singer Danielle Moore, who erects small towers of harmonies, repeatedly layering her burnished, breathy voice over a motoring beat. While the bottom of the track is pure, high-octane propulsion, the top is fluffy and lavish, like a racecar covered in frosting.
“She loved looping herself up, and she loved the idea of creating something dynamic from lines which are just looping over and over,” says Jim Baron, one of Crazy P’s co-founders. They had tried the effect years before, on 2011’s “Wecanonlybewhoweare,” but wanted to take another crack at it. “You get all these counterpoints from all these different lines working together, tracked up, to give a really smooth sort of feel,” Baron continues.
“She loved that.” Moore had been Crazy P’s singer for more than two decades. She died at age 52 in August, roughly three months before “Human After All” came out on Any Signs of Love .
(In January, her family said the cause of death was suicide.) “Danielle is irreplaceable,” Baron says solemnly — she was not only a cool-but-stirring presence on club-ready gems like “Give It Up” and “Cruel Mistress” and “Clouds,” but a dynamic performer who scaled the DJ booth to dance and sing as co-founder Chris Todd played behind her at a 2023 show in Brooklyn. Crazy P started roughly 30 years ago when Baron and Todd were .
