Longtime San Diego punk and indie scene stalwart Rob Crow, most notably the co-leader of The O.C.-era indie poppers Pinback, announced in March 2015 that he would quit music until he could get his health–particularly his alcohol habit–in order. Nine months later, he returned with a new project, Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place, its name taken from depressive donkey Eeyore’s stomping grounds in A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories.