Blog: SoundsXP

Crystal Stilts: Alight of Night Another much-hyped Brooklyn band, but one that lives up to every word of praise. Alight of Night has a great dirtied-down sound borrowing from every decade but sounding fully of the moment: a Velvets-meets-Suicide rumble-rock with a touch of My Bloody Valentine and Link Wray, while Brad Hargett's vocals are filled with the same toneless despair as Ian Curtis's. Those reverby guitars and the dense, slaggy sound is inspired; the [...]