Crystal Stilts - Converging In the Quiet
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Uploaded by libraquaricorn on Sep 16, 2008
The Brooklyn based quartet Crystal Stilts recently compiled the two releases of their very own brand of new-wave flavored garage pop - a 7" and a 12" - on to a single disc and released it on the label Woodsist and digitally on eMusic Select.
It's an absolutely brilliant little record that makes other slightly JAMC-sounding acts pale in comparison. In addition to the obvious JAMC influence I personally hear traces of Joy Division, early Felt and perhaps a dash of early Orange Juice as well.
The band is set to release a proper debut album in the end of October 2008 - it's to be titled Alight of Night.
I love this track - Converging in the Quiet - for the special "ambient" twist to it and it reminds me of one of the great anthems of 90s ambient techno - "Tha" by Aphex Twin from the classic album Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
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@NewMundane Why, dude... why...
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may sound like Joy Division, does not mean it doesn't sound good though, and if music is good that's all it needs to be.
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I listen to crytsal stilts because of that reverb, July division does not have reverb and does not give off psychedelic feel
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everybody seems to be comparing everything since Interpol to joy division, forgetting that joy division themselves borrowed heavily from likes of velvet underground to david bowie and other proto-punk acts.
7 months ago 2
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@chickenyogurt I listen to Joy Division every day last 2 years and ... no!,it doesn't sound like them.
I mean really do you think that the vocal sounds like Ian?In the begginning I thought it sound really like Morrissey and that the song has that poignant melancholy of Smiths' songs.After a month of maniacal listening to Crystal Stilts I don't care how does it sound anymore.
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@reddeadlys ORLY
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Damn good
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WHAT OF ARE JOY DIVISION
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7 months ago 2
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@mathiasa94 what song, im not a cystal stilts fan boy or anything, but i just think people search too much for joy division and other obvious influences in music
8 months ago 4
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@invictorium nah, the chords played by the guitar is also used in a Joy Division song, I'm quite sure.
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I cannot be the only one who heard Joy Division in there
chickenyogurt 2 years ago 76
Yeh, fuck sake, stop searching for joy division. Just because it features the bass guitar!
invictorium 10 months ago 6