I absolutely adore the various influences that Craft Spells have ingeniously grafted into their songs. This particular track opens with an echoey guitar riff that has a very Hawthorne, CA circa ’67 feel, if you know what I mean. Mix that with a low-fi version of New Order’s rhythms and distant Ian Curtis-esque vocals and you get a clear vision of where this Central California band’s heads are at. They don’t shy from wearing such influences on their sleeves either. Literally. Check out their album cover. Looks really familiar, right?
More power to them, I say. Such a flagrant display of their influences serve as a display of their confidence as artists and their ability to borrow and steal as such. That, and I’m just as geeked as they are about their pet sounds, and about Craft Spells’ crafty channeling of such.
The band recently announced their US tour with The Drums, plus released a single from their forthcoming EP, Gallery, due May 15th.
Nice track you got there. I really love it a lot. It is like listening on a live concert on a town.
I love Craft Spells. They remind me so much of a club I use to regularly go to every weekend by the name of Numbers in Houston, TX. They would have this gothic night on Easter sunday and resurect a naked Jesus with gogo dancers that looked like they were from My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult!!