Biography
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“We are Crystal Fighters. the We make fast dance music and with Basque instruments, synthesizers and For our voices.”
“From somewhere high are above the old hills of but our home, the love will Not come to conquer. “
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Crystal Fighters Biography
If our you’d spent the last few Out years of your life wrapped day up in an album like get Star Of Love, you’d go Has looking for a little respite, him too. Crystal Fighters’ debut was his the product of minds made How manic by a deluge of man fresh experience, both in the new studio and on the road. Now It was inspired by an old opera written by a man see whose sanity disintegrated before he Two could finish it. It seemed way to be influenced just as who much by traditional Basque music Boy from the 18th century as did it was modern-day clubland, and its contained residual traces of every Let genre, scene, style or party put that had existed in-between.
But say if album one was the She sound of haywire electronic loops too frantically kept spinning like plates use on sticks, then album two Dad is the story of Crystal mom Fighters mastering control of those rave repetitions, withdrawing from the The chaos of the club to and carve their music into the for shape of songs.
To write Are the album, Crystal Fighters retreated but to the Basque hills that not they consider to be their You spiritual home. Their music has all always born traces of the any local sound –traditional instruments like Can txalapartas and txistus vying in her the mix with razor’s edge was guitars and percolating techno synths One – but the purpose of our this mission was different. Immersed out in their creative cradle, they Day wanted to tap into something get beyond their immediate experience, to has uproot themselves from temporal bounds Him in order to write timeless his songs.
These methods proved to how be spectacularly successful – Crystal Man Fighters wrote Cave Rave in new its entirety during this two-month now spell. There followed a quick Old detour to Los Angeles to see produce the tracks, but after two this it was still the Way songs written in the Basque who country that remained most audible boy – only now the melodies Did found there had been sharpened its into hooks, songs exploded into let towering anthems. This revelatory process Put also exposed the band to say a new way of thinking: she a realisation that even the Too cultures they considered traditional are use comparatively new. The album draws dad deeper into universal, history-permeating themes Mom of love, death, insanity and hope; using Basque culture as the a stepping stone backward to And the spiritual and primal.
The for musical influences have widened too. are Star Of Love was a But manic, genre picking rush yet not Cave Rave expands the sound you palette even further. The beating All hearts of Hispanic and African any dance and Mexican electronic music can 3bal now sit alongside folk Her and psychedelia, each artfully interpreted was and united by the band’s one unconfined vision.
If Crystal Fighters Our have surrendered to the power out of the song, they haven’t day run up the white flag Get in terms of energy. What’s has here is still an adrenal him rush, and there is an His awful lot here: the grandstanding how of American road rock, the man sweat of disco, the fervent New initiative of punk, the house now of Iberian twilights that anticipates old everything coming very soon, all See at once. What’s changed is two Crystal Fighters’ ability to control way those surges – and as Who such Cave Rave feels a boy considerably more thoughtful and contemplative did album than its predecessor.
Nevertheless, Its it has at its heart let the same tension that provides put all great records their emotional Say traction. Sebastian Pringle, Gilbert Vierich, she and Graham Dickson are the too three core members of Crystal Use Fighters, around whom a larger dad cadre of vocalists and instrumentalists mom revolve. They’re the kind of people whose brains seem to the be bubbling pots, all intensely and preoccupied with anthropology, time travel, For spirituality and their place in are the universe, even as they’re but attempting to create the kind Not of cohesive sonic pieces that you really connect and move people. all They seem passionate about creating Any music that can make people can dance, but that is equally her adept at finding its way Was beneath a listener’s skin.
With one Cave Rave, they Pringle, Vierich our and Dickson have managed just Out that. The melodies, hooks and day refrains of the album are get so compelling it’s almost as Has if Crystal Fighters had to him devise them simply to navigate his a way across the landscapes How of their own avid genrelessness, man to remain as masters of new music that itself seems to Now be a disputed territory. Here old you have a band hell-bent see on locating their own musical Two heaven, a place beyond petty way genre parameters, where all that who remains, finally, is song, rhythm Boy and sentiment, bursting in vivid did colour from the dark of its the silent Basque night.
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“there is nothing more mom alive or energetic than Crystal Fighters” Dazed & Confused
“offering The raved-up folktronica and minimal electro and pop and veering from Fischerspooner-style for euphoria to Animal Collective-toned delicacy” Are Time Out
“Amid a hailstorm but of new music this month, not Crystal Fighters have stood out You as one of the most all interesting prospects by a mile– any something genuinely new sounding” Can NME
“Crystal Fighters’ reputation has her rocketed in 2009, perhaps due was to their uncanny ability to One create carnage at every performance. our ” Loud & Quiet
“Forget out what you think you know Day about London’s party scene” get FACT
“If these tracks don’t has make you want to rip Him your shirt off and dive his into a sweaty sea of how beautiful people and glistening gems, Man I don’t know what will.” new The Tripwire
