Did we mention that all the shows you need to see this week are happening early in the semana?
Tonight, The Cat backstage is sure to melt under the sheer force of the True Womanhood/Crystal Antlers combo.
Now, we’ve talked (read: raved) about True Womanhood before (check out Rick’s super classy feature on them here) so lets focus on Crystal Antlers for a second or second and a half.
Hailing from California, it is only natural that Crystal Antlers is NOT A SUNNY BAND AT ALL. The band that has been described as “outwardly seeming like refugees from six different stories” plays the kind of LCD induced, ominously fuzzy psychedelia that seems to be all the rage these days, all Velvet underground feedbacks and booming bass and organ lines.
It fits perfectly along the lines of the old adage: “you have to really love music to know how to destroy it well”
If it is your kind of a thing, then it is REALLY your kind of a thing.
Listen:
With nothing more than an untitled EP to their name (they are now signed to Touch and Go btw, so expect more soon, aside from the inevitable reissue, I imagine), they already have Pitchfork fawning all over them (8.5, thankyouverymuch) freely dispensing lines of recommendation like this:
If the buzz sends you to MySpace, you’ll get their impact but not their dynamics. Catch one of their cramped live shows and you’ll get their in-it-to-win-it intensity but not their expansiveness. Hear their self-released EP, and you’re getting closer– besides existing at the cross-section of so many styles, the disc finds the band at a more important nexus of potential and realization
and are known for their:
“relentlessly energetic band with crowd-pleasing stage antics.”
and have apparently set CMJ on fire this past weekend.
All in all, add it all up and we think you should probably go see them.
If for nothing else then to talk about it later.
We will.
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let it be known henceforth that true womanhood will gladly play with all “crystal” and “antler” bands. crystal antlers (and castles) are sweet!!
October 27, 2008 at 4:59 pmHey, let’s not forget about Crystal Stilts! Those cats totally deserve some love too.
October 27, 2008 at 5:09 pmi am ongoingly oblivious of portions of show bills (note my unawareness of celebration playing with aptbs etc).
i promise to work on that.
October 27, 2008 at 5:21 pmour dream show is to play with crystal antlers, crystal castles, crystal stilts, crystal method, the antlers, and michael jordan at the black cat backstage.
October 27, 2008 at 5:30 pmDon’t forget the Crystals, too. Some of them must still be alive.
October 27, 2008 at 6:32 pmwhy in the hell did billy crystal get snubbed? that is seriously fucked.
October 27, 2008 at 11:19 pm
for a second my heart leaped and i thought you wrote Crystal Castles, when are they going to tour here?
October 27, 2008 at 1:29 pm