Crystal Fighters

Heaven, LondonCrystal Fighters are a highly bizarre musical proposition: a band of arty east London hipsters who have created an uneven fusion of banging rave-era techno and quixotic folk music that makes use of the idiosyncratic wooden percussion, timpani and pipe whistles of the Basque country.They arrive trailing an unlikely backstory of being inspired by finding fragments of an opera composed by their backing singer's late Basque grandfather, but even if this media-friendly account of their ...

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