Video: Thrushes - Crystals

Thrushes craft gorgeous noise pop and swirling dream rock. Opening with the cavernous drumming of "Aidan Quinn" on their debut record, into the revved-up, fuzzed out Jesus And Mary Chain-esque "Heartbeats," and carried through the nods to Dead Can Dance in "Loyalty" and haunted claps of guitar thunder on "Ghost Train," to the final feedback soaked fallout of "The Hardest Part," this is the sound of blood on blood. Guitarist Casey Harvey had been pestering Rachel Tracy about forming a band for years. She finally relented in the summer of 2005, agreeing to play bass, and they [...]

Thrushes are somewhere between calming fuzzy reverb and head spinning Shoegaze, influences form a vitally dependent and loving pattern. Post-Punk wonderment and bitter sweet tears rip through the core of this CD album, I`m really feeling the need to run up and give Anna Conner a gentle reassuring hug. The band have been comprehensively Blogged recently, phrases knocking about include technicolour noise-pop, wall of sound and joyous melodies. This month we`re very pleased - no correction , honoured to give away a copy of the latest release `Night Falls`, just drop into the competition [...]

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