Tag: Crystal Stilts
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Crystal Stilts’ signature sound involves blanketing classic doo-wop and rock-and-roll sounds with an almost-imperceptible layer of dread, and accordingly, their playlist dips into the weirder corners of summer-of-love jangle. There are good trips […]
Here’s “Star Crawl,” the first single and video from Crystal Stilts forthcoming Nature Noir. The track is pleasantly heavy-lidded and reverby, with just a hint of looming menace, and the video’s slow pans and glitched-out colors only heighten the atmosphere. It’s directed by Daniel Fetherston, and it’s got beaches, mountains, and yes, psychedelic snails. […]
