Crystalline Roses is a solo project of Tony from Mudlark and SQRM, two bands you know about if you're in Western Massachusetts and two bands you should probably know about if you're from anywhere else.
The Crystalline Roses project has really been getting to me lately after first hearing it on a three-way split with Justin Pigott and Peter Bonneman last summer. Saw him play a quiet set in George's basement to cap off a show once and it was beautiful. It's devastating how well these recordings suit a frigid Western Mass winter. "Dante" lopes along about as fast as I could imagine moving when the windchill is -13°. "Calling Upon the Wind" refers to these gusts, a faint falsetto recalling some lonely Phil Elverum shit.
Crystalline Roses - Dante
Crystalline Roses - Calling Upon the Wind
Head over to I Could Die Tomorrow and download the split HERE. Pigott's and Bonneman's sections are great too, as is the uplifting Crystalline Roses cover of Charles Manson's "Home Is Where You're Happy."
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i dont think you could have picked better tracks. these are solid gold.
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