The new video from Crystal Slits, “Through The Floor,” is simplistic, unassuming, but nonetheless hypnotic. If this video was created 10 years ago you would have thought each frame of celluloid was hand painted with a watercolor set. It’s the first single from In Love With Oblivion, due out next Tuesday, April 12 on Slumberland.
In just the first few seconds I was catapulted through time to when I was a kid. My groovy Aunt Stella (think Serena from “Bewitched”) had this set of speakers in her “lounge” that played kaleidoscope patterns to the rhythm of the music. I would kill for those speakers now.
As with the kind of timeless, recorded-in-a-bathroom/hollowed sound of “Through The Floor,” the colorful dance in the video glides you into a pseudo trance, allowing you to forget for just a moment, how nuts the world is right now. It’s certainly fitting of the new album’s title; a catalyst for living in oblivion and escaping from reality…like a Michel Gondry film. A welcomed invitation indeed.
Crystal Stilts “Through The Floor” from Slumberland Records on Vimeo.
Stream the full album: In Love With Oblivion
The guys from South Florida – Brad Hargett (vocals), JB Townsend (guitar), Kyle Forester (keyboards), Andy Adler (bass), and Keegan Cooke (drums) – pack up for the Crystal Slits In Love With Oblivion tour, which kicks off next Saturday in New York, treks across the U.S., and wraps in Toronto towards the end of May:
Sat-Apr-16 – New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge #
Sun-Apr-17 – Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg #
Fri-Apr-22 – Washington, DC Black Cat Backstage *
Sat-Apr-23 – Raleigh, NC Kings Barcade *
Mon-Apr-25 – Birmingham, AL Bottletree *
Tue-Apr-26 – New Orleans, LA The Den *
Thu-Apr-28 – Houston, TX Fitzgeralds (upstairs) *
Fri-Apr-29 – Austin, TX Austin Psych Fest 4 at Seaholm Powerplant
Sat-Apr-30 – Dallas, TX Club Dada *
Tue-May-03 – Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room
Wed-May-04 – San Diego, CA Casbah
Thu-May-05 – Santa Barbara, CA Muddy Waters
Fri-May-06 – Los Angeles, CA Natural History Museum
Sat-May-07 – San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
Sun-May-08 – Sacramento, CA The Hub
Tue-May-10 – Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Wed-May-11 – Seattle, WA The Crocodile
Thu-May-12 – Vancouver, BC Biltmore
Fri-May-13 – Kennwick, WA Red Room
Sat-May-14 – Boise, ID The Linen Building
Sun-May-15 – Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
Mon-May-16 – Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
Wed-May-18 – Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
Thu-May-19 – Madison, WI High Noon
Fri-May-20 – Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Sat-May-21 – Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Sun-May-22 – Toronto, ON Sneaky Dees
# = w/ Spectrum
* = w/ The German Measles
