Anyone who ever reads this blog even a little knows I take quite a few kilobytes of bandwidth complaining about the weather. Okay? Fine. I complain about it. Especially when there’s snow. But I don’t make it the centrepiece of all my conversations, especially when the situation isn’t going to change.

See it’s been raining here for like, I dunno, ten days straight, and the weather has been miserable most of the summer. Weather services are predicting nonstop rain for the next five days. So everyone, everywhere is bitching about how much this summer sucks. The rain is what’s making headline news. Everyone I greet with a “Hey, how are ya?” receives the same damned “Oh fine, but I’d be better if it weren’t for the rain” response.

I’m done and sick of these people complaining. Just because they can’t jump on the overpriced summer equipment they purchased to feel like they didn’t waste all that money doesn’t mean they have to psychologically torture me with their bloody grievances. They should learn to make the most out of the grey, gloomy atmosphere we’re being doused in. You know, find the fun in it.

Like Crystal Stilts. See, they take a gloomy, cavernous, moody atmosphere and inject a 1960s effulgence to it in order to create a song which will get you to dance facing a brick wall to, but with a smile on your face. And this Joy Division-meets-beach music tune is entitled Crystal Stilts (yes, same as the band’s name). Just listen to it and you’ll immediately get swept into this reverberating, murky vibe, with dense low-key vocals carrying a downpitched, introspective psyche-shifter. But, lo and behold, springy guitars riffs, sunshiny organ bursts, and (gasp!) a tambourine embrace a surprisingly spry melody, while remaining perfectly in sync with the song’s vibrating stone antechamber texture. It sounds like a farce, but the arrangements are clever, efficient, and catchy, making a true, honest-to-goodness sound which avoids being a silly pastiche. Crystal Stilts is captivatingly surreal, mysteriously engaging, and intriguing to the utmost.

MP3: Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts

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