John Brainlove - 06.03.2009  Shoegaze has been going through something of a renaissance of late. With the return of My Bloody Valentine, and the genre-reinventing success of bands...
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cloudspeakers - 28.02.2009  Facts about this album:
Crystal Stilts' UK label, Angular, has also released records by The Long Blondes, These New Puritans and Bloc Party.
Crystal ...
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Bill Cummings - 20.02.2009  Haven?t you heard C86 is back In recent months the urgent Shop Assistants-esque fuzz of the Vivian Girls and the heady fizzing pop of the Pains of Be...
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Brad Kelly - 17.02.2009  The guitar jangles to life, lifting dust from the floor as melancholic vocals swim into view, hazy and distant. Lazy percussions float to the forth, l...
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Niall O'Keeffe - 16.02.2009 It takes real arrogance to sing the way Brad Hargett sings. And it takes real talent to pull it off as he does. Throughout debut album Alight of Night...
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Alex Hibbert - 13.02.2009  Originally released on the U.S label Slumberland towards the back end of last year, here island dwellers are treated to a release almost five months o...
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Michael Hann - 13.02.2009 The debut album from New York four-piece Crystal Stilts is not, by any rational standard, a "good" album. It is so drenched in reverb and echo that it...
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Darren Carle - 12.02.2009  We all like to be happy, but it’s not very rock ‘n’ roll is it Smiling is frowned upon. Looking glum is where it’s at. No doubt Brooklyn’s Crystal St...
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Nic Oliver - 09.02.2009  Forgive me if you are one of the pale young things who are sent in to raptures by this album and have already marked down Crystal Stilts as the second...
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Sam LeGassick - 04.02.2009  Crystal Stilts have managed to capture the haunting melodies of Joy Division, mixed it with a Sixties Velvet Underground vibe, injected a dose of my B...
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