"She shot me with her eyes / knocked me to the floor / it shocked me to realize / we'd crossed paths sometime before," sings Brad Hargett over a chug of acoustic guitar, colossal bursts of organ, and enough reverb to make your closet sound like a cave the size of Madison Square Garden. The song, "Dark Eyes," is the opener on the Crystal Stilts' excellent new 5-song EP Radiant Door, out tomorrow via Sacred Bones. It's an experimental batch of tracks, from the Spaghetti Western guitars on "Still As The Night" to the wandering and lonesome hypnotic twang of "Frost Inside The Asylum," but thanks to topnotch craft and execution, every note and effect here feel deliberate and fully realized. While some bands use reverb as a protective cloak, Hargett and company are more like sculptors, extremely conscious of the shape of their music as they mold it through various lenses, waves, and tunnels of sound.
listened again and came up with this: "She shocked me blue eyes, knocked me to the floor. / It shocked me to realize, we crossed paths some time before"
I was wrong. I emailed the band and Brad sent me back the correct lyrics: "she shot me with her eyes / knocked me to the floor / it shocked me to realize / we'd crossed paths sometime before." The second verse is "her dark eyes stayed with me / part dream, part memory..."
Super nice guy. And this song is pretty damn incredible.
lyrics are wrong
ReplyDeletelistened again and came up with this: "She shocked me blue eyes, knocked me to the floor. / It shocked me to realize, we crossed paths some time before"
ReplyDeleteI was wrong. I emailed the band and Brad sent me back the correct lyrics: "she shot me with her eyes / knocked me to the floor / it shocked me to realize / we'd crossed paths sometime before." The second verse is "her dark eyes stayed with me / part dream, part memory..."
ReplyDeleteSuper nice guy. And this song is pretty damn incredible.