New Crystal Stilts Video - "Prismatic Room"

Crystal Stilts' Alight Of Night should be on more year-end lists. If you still haven't taken a listen after our repeated urgings, here's another opportunity: the Brooklyn band's dusky, melancholic '80s-esque noise pop makes a nice foil to grainy footage of the band and their friends having fun in the Army of Kids-directed video for one of the album's standouts "Prismatic Room." You get a lot of sunspots, trees, folks kidding around or sleeping. It often seems like bummed, baritone frontman Brad Hargett's off somewhere by himself, or at least by himself behind those sunglasses, which makes as much good sense as drummer and friendly bartender Frankie Rose smiling for the camera.

(P4K.tv)

Alight of Night is out via Slumberland.

Posted at 3:45 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Crystal Stilts

7 Comments

Man I love them. They were a big hit here at the radio station in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Jon at 12/10/08 6:53 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, anyone who has met frankie knows exactly how "friendly" she really is.

Posted by: whatever at 12/10/08 10:03 PM  | Reply
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Where may I purchase one of the fine sweaters from the moving picture?

Posted by: Cellar Dorian at 12/11/08 12:47 AM  | Reply
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you're right, brando: cats are sleeping on this album. it's great.

Posted by: douglas martin at 12/11/08 8:44 PM  | Reply
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This video is sooooo good.

Posted by: Linda Rollo at 12/15/08 1:06 PM  | Reply
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Don't be fooled! Frankie is only friendly long enough to use you as a stepping stone!
Nice video, though.

Posted by: amanda at 12/22/08 8:30 AM  | Reply
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truer words have never been spoken

Posted by: word  in reply to amanda's comment at 01/11/09 6:40 PM  | Reply
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