Tall order

I hope you like your shoes because you might find yourself gazing at them. I picked up the Crystal Stilts album a few weeks ago and have only just warmed to how good the album actually is. Sounding like a cross between the Stone Roses and a dirty garage band, their music floats around your brain and before you know it the album is finished. They're playing a few gigs at the minute, including a treat at Barden's Boudoir in London when they play alongside the great Wavves.

Crystal Stilts - Prismatic Room
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Lovely lasses

I got myself a copy of the self titled album by Women at the weekend and it's a belter. The Canadian four piece from Calgery borrowed Chad Vangaalen's basement to record their debut album, and it's a varied mix of shoegaze and Lo-fi garage with a couple of weird ones on the end. Women are playing a few gigs across the UK and Europe over the first quarter of the year. You can see them with the amazing Wavves if you're at The Lexington in London on 3rd March. Here are my top two off the album...

Women - Black Rice
Women - Cameras
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Making Wavves

Wavves sound like they swallowed up their Californian 50's surfer rock roots and spat them out through a broken amp. The mix of heavy fuzzed bass, drums and nice harmonies rock. Wavves is actually one guy called Nathan Williams from San Diego from what I can attain. The debut album came out in December 2008 and there's an Ep winging it way to release in a couple of weeks. Catch the Wavves (sorry) while they're touring over the next few weeks if you can. You might see them with the lovely Crystal Stilts if you're lucky.

Wavves - Wavves
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