Alight of Night.zip

For my next post I thought I would cover an album that is pretty new its by a band called crystal stilts. The albums called Alight of Night and I guess this is the part where I'm supposed to say something about how this album name fits the feel of the album but I can't think of any good real reason of why so I'm going to go ahead and stop there before I say something stupid. Anyway this album came out in 2008 and I think it's a totally awesome album its real Lo-fi and not Lo-Fi in the hipster douche bag sense of making it Lo-Fi purely to be cool its Lo-Fi because recording it in Lo-Fi sound gives it a real neo-garage sixties garage feel. Everything is distorted even the vocals scratch the walls of your ears its like if scratching a chalk board suddenly sounded appealing or something. some of the lyrics really stand out to me like in one song the singer says "thats not the real sun and i'm not a real boy" which to me makes me think of waking up in a tangent universe and knowing that you're not where your supposed to be and saying thats not the sun as i know and i'm not a boy as they know me to be. Don't ask me why and i know he doesn't sound anything like him but for some reason whenever I listen to the crystal stilts I can't help but think of the misfits singer if he got kicked in the balls a couple of times and don't get me wrong this is anything but a punk album (well i don't know its more punk than lets say a rap album but unless you're a total idiot you get what I mean). But the reason I say that is because the way the singer carries on in a low pitch howling meets humming kind of style. I think the way the singer projects his sound is really what makes the band. This album was definitely made in some sort of strung out state I'm coming to this conclusion because the singer says things like "were snorting dreams" which makes me think of some sort of drug induced ambition. You know the kind of thing someone says they'll do one day when they are all fucked up but if they were sober they would probably never get around to it. The singer goes on to saying other things like "we knew we had to leave as soon as the sun rose...we have to leave this town to keep our selves in tact now if we can only get our bodies to react" like waking up after some crazy party gone wrong and trying to get the hell out of their but you can hardly force your self to make it to the door the song also makes tones of references to the sin king which is obviously some vice lord or something. I don't know these are totally un-scolicted opinions but I like what I think and i'm staying with that. All I can say other than that is that this Brooklyn band's album has crazy distorted garage rock riffs reverb crazy organ and vocals that must be purposely maxed out in the red on a Mixer but they don't pierce your ears so it's really hard to explain. I highly recommend this album to anyone who likes lo-fi.