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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Night Control - CS + Good Looks

Posted 4/3/2009 10:31 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: drone, experimental, ambient, rock, psych, pop, noise

The reclusive Christopher Curtis Smith is Night Control, who used to be Crystal Shards, who doesn't do interviews and doesn't play live. The man's putting out a message: he does not want to be found. He's just as slippery on record, his Death Control album  - a collection of tracks recorded at home over the years and out now through Kill Shaman - harbouring eternal pop elixir behind a cross-hatch of noise and guitar shrapnel, found sound and the songs from the last 30 years that are still cool even though everyone knows the words. You can't hear any of the words on Death Control - that would be too vain, probably, for Smith to hack. Instead there's the general feeling, despite the dischord, that all is or will soon be well in the world. And who doesn't want that feeling? About as many of you who won't like "Good Looks" or non-album, totally exclusive, future 7" cut "CS". Both sound freshly relieved of some painful ordeal and they're beautiful for it, frankly.

Sounds Like: Ariel Pink, Velvet Underground, A Grave With No Name

Night Control - CS

Night Control - Good Looks

Night Control's RCRD LBL Page

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