All lists, especially one of this sort, deserve a singing skeleton, so here’s Soft Kill’s “Death In The Family” video to send us into that great night. Crystal Bowersox Crystal Castles Crystal Fighters Crystal Gayle Crystal Lake Crystal Method, The Crystal Shawanda Crystals, The Crystal Waters Crywank Crywolf CSS C. It’s worth noting I wrote the bulk of this during a March icestorm. Thanks to Caleb, Pieter, and others for insights. Todd Pendu, who’s releasing it, tells me “it’ll have unreleased White Ring tracks along with exclusive remixes etc put together like a classic street hip-hop mixtape.” In 2011 they can shed that “witch house” tag and get back to what they were doing in the first place. This is just part of what makes the male/female Brooklyn duo so interesting. I’ve gone on about how Crystal Castles make me think of WOLD and the black metal connections with Frank (Just Frank) and Zola Jesus, but if you jump around the Internet, you’ll see White Ring themselves mentioning Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Watain, and Liturgy alongside Swans, Death In June, Slowdive, TG, and Coil. Also of note: The following’s in alphabetical order, not in order of darkness. His work with artists include Adele, Florence and the Machine, Rihanna and Maxïmo Park amongst many others. (If I had included some of the latter, I would’ve featured awesome new Tri Angle signee Ayshay, shrouded noisemakers Cultus Sabbati, Brooklyn’s Mirrorgate, Mamiffer, and Montreal’s Femminielli, among others.) I needed to narrow it somehow, so this is “poppier” terrain. 25 July 1974) is an English record producer, musician, and songwriter. Speaking of which, I didn’t get into metal or more outsider ambient sounds because (a) I ramble enough about metal elsewhere and (b) it’s always been plenty dark in those parts. I also left off a bunch of bands like Sleep ? Over because they’re swoony, but not very grim.
I left off Soft Moon because we included The Soft Moon on our 20 Most Overlooked Albums Of 2010, but consider them honorary members. Not all of the groups were formed in 2011, no, but most of them are poised to leave their biggest mark in the coming months. Things are still definitely drifting into black in 2011, so I thought it made sense to put together a list of some of the best “new” bands making sounds in those shadows. I started thinking about this again while writing the Double Take on Liars’ They Were Wrong, though to be fair, it’s something that doesn’t really leave my mind. Look no further than regular topics of conversation around here - Zola Jesus, CREEP, Cold Cave, Salem, Tamaryn, Blessure Grave, Locrian, Gatekeeper, Frank (Just Frank), Crystal Castles, Holy Other, Balam Acab, Minks, oOoOO, Silent Diane, ///?\\\, anyone else who got labeled “witch house,” and even the new look Abe Vigoda, etc. It’s not news that popular indie rock got a bit darker in 2010.
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