It would be a band from Brooklyn that would manage, with one song, to capture a sense of loss and longing, a claustrophobic, encroaching darkness with any crystalline angles muted to the point of sounding less jagged and more worn and broken. That band would be the Crystal
Crystal
At first, I really wanted to shake these boys off, or at least turn a deaf ear to them. The few songs, gathered from various EPs and sundry scattered across the internet, that I’ve heard have, on a whole, the band playing their about-to-splinter fragmented garage rock sound as their only propulsion. These songs really only exist to fall apart-or, rather, they only exist to appear to fall apart. “Shattered Shine”, though, does something totally unique-it swells, it grows, it breathes in the darkness. I’ve seen comparisons to Joy Division-this is more Stiff Kittens, more stuff that isn’t even living yet, just hibernating, incubating, not even alive enough to threaten with deconstruction.
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