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Single Reviews
Single Review: Crystal Stilts – Departure (Angular Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 9 February 2009
Heavy on the bass intro, ‘Departure’ could be a perfectly acceptable Joy Division rip off (it does sound a little like ‘Disorder’, I’m not gonna lie), if it weren’t for the jingly-jangly guitars that move it from somewhere near the region of East Jesus Post-Punk to Mount St. Psychedelia; Ian Curtis is driving, Jim Reid has the map. A heavy mixture of those two hipper-than-hip genres, Brooklyn-based quintet Crystal Stilts’ debut single is scuzzy and heady, trippy and thick-sounding, but most importantly, it is current. Despite its heavy steps backwards toward old sounds, one mustn’t forget the importance of regurgitation in today’s nu-post-punk music scene. Read the name of the genre again and you’ll understand why. A fine, if predictable effort – coming soon to a sweaty hipster bar near you. TW
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