Crystal Fighters

Since their debut album ‘Star of Love’ in 2010, Crystal Fighters have achieved the seemingly impossible feat of fusing together folk, traditional Basque rhythms and EDM to create a unique brand inexplicably infectious rave.

Part of Crystal Fighters’ charm has always been that, taken as a sum of its parts, their music should have sounded like a horrendously ill-conceived mismatch, but instead what they delivered was a vibrant and entirely unorthodox vision of what dance could sound like. It’s perhaps because of this that the comparatively MOR ‘Love Alight’ is disappointing.

While Crystal Fighters had previously sounded distinctive, ‘Love Alight’ sounds generic.  The EDM influences here are more pronounced and the record sounds like it was designed to demand daytime radio play more than anything else. 

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