Crystal Clear

If there is a word has to be involved with your musical aspirations to be popular in 2010, it is Crystal.

Whether its a wider reflection on these messy times, with legal highs, illegal expenses, and dirty fucking volcanoes, or just something that is intricately formed and beautiful I do not know however i do know the latter applies to Crystal Castles latest effort.



Celestica feels like a band returning from the underground, the track flourishes with a sense of naivety, ready to explore a new season on a new world. As the track grows it strengthens, flaunting a new sense of direction and maturity. Crystal Castles come across as a band with so much untamed energy, which is usually the down fall of their kind ( im think of the Death From Above.. and Test Icicles ect) where the band splits. However what we have here is a unique opportunity to see what comes next.

Celestica - Crystal Castles

Time Out

Phew, time has finally been called on my travels around the Great British island. Ive picked up some interesting things on my way, and this is what i am going to share with you today:

1) We've confirmed a Documentary with Crystal Antlers, with director and editor Spike Morris, very excited to get involved with another dimension of media! If by some crime of the century you have not heard of them, sort it out, yeah? A band unlike most others have the perfect balance of Pop and something new that could really put them in to the public eye. So get in their first!

Little Sister

2) More and more people have been telling me they are making the trip to Leeds Festival, a place were More The Merrier ring loud and true. The track to go with this is Phoenix, playing on the Sunday (in Leeds). This will be the track that without a doubt will be the sing-a-long track, and i can fully imagine driving home on that Monday morning humming along to the memory of the night before.

Lisztomania

and as Pip say "Love, it's a weird thing ain't it?" yeah it is, its beautiful, which brings me to a live recording of Phoenix.

Phoenix - 1901 - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

3)Finally, and the reason why I'm leaving this post here even though Ive got so much that i want tell you, Ive got tonsillitis, so off to the doctor now!