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Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night

Oct 28, 2008, 2:55pm Indie MP3 - Keeping C86 Alive
Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night Crystal Stilts are yet another band from the fertile breeding ground that is Brooklyn and this is their debut album. Lead track The Dazzled kicks things off in a wonderfully sleazy way, world weary and careless. Sluggish in other hands, but not in these. They follow that with Crystal Stilts , the song, which is very Jesus & Mary Chain, with a twang of Duane Eddy guitar. The drums are a keen point, especially on this song, being limited and supplying only the necessary beat. Graveyard Orbit has a suitably downbeat shuffle, but with [...]
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