Crystal Fighters - Everything Is My Family on CD

Description

Crystal Fighters are a truly international band who learn from humanity's most ancient traditions to make music that sounds like the future. The core trio of singer Sebastian 'Bast' Pringle, guitar and txalaparta player Graham Dickson and multi-instrumentalist Gilbert Vierich have spent the last three years traversing the planet, reconnecting with nature and learning to play forgotten instruments. On this, their third album, Everything Is My Family embodies their ecstatic lust for life and, as Bast says, "is more dancefloor, more psychedelic, more tropical, more rave, more sunshine, more pretty much everything" than anything they have done before. 'All Night', the first track to be heard from the album is already doing big things, flying straight on to the Radio 1 playlist and already garnering close to 2 million streams in just a few short weeks. Now comes new song, 'Ways I Can't Tell', premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show and one of a handful the band wrote specifically for the live show. "We write songs that make us want to dance around the studio," says Bast. "We figure that if it makes us dance it will probably make other people want to dance too." Since the release of acclaimed second album 'Cave Rave' in 2013, Bast has spent time living in the Basque Country, The Canary Islands, and Central America - a field recording of tropical wise-men in conversation from Costa Rica opens the album - and says his time away from the overpowering buzz of modern civilisation has given him a new perspective. Meanwhile, bandmate Graham lived "up a mountain" in Maine before travelling down to Peru in a modern life-provoked quest for otherness. He says that the time they each individually spent exploring the world has helped them come to terms with some of the highs and tragic lows the band has already experienced. Renowned for their spectacular live shows, the band recently closed the Big Top Tent at Bestival and headlined Wilderness, another two huge shows on their 2016/17 world tour covering five continents and playing to a million people over 180+ shows

Tracks

1. Simplecito
2. Yellow sun
3. Good girls
4. In your arms
5. Live for you
6. Ways I can't tell
7. All night
8. The moondog
9. Fly East
10. Living the dream
11. Lay low