Introducing :: Crypt Sound

Introducing...Crypt Sound

Linn Branson

Two factors to note about Crypts. Firstly, whilst they opt to use a recording studio in Manchester, they are, in fact, based in Shoreditch, London. And secondly, they are no longer called Crypts, but due to an American Crypts, this Crypts are now Crypt Sound.

Over the course of the year, Crypts as was, have been working in the studio on an album's worth of material which is about to manifest itself as 'Facts of Sound' as a self-release via Bandcamp.

"We're releasing the album as a curiosity really. We were doing all of those band-things a year back but now we've found the process of recording and its so much more rewarding. We want to make something that people will have a real sustained reaction to and will know its us rather than a cornel of us surrounded by a lot of image and embellishment et al. So far it's really worked as online instead of getting consistent comparison's to a movement the reviews we've got have looked towards very particular sounds. We've only been mailing blogs to review it our selves in order to provoke these reactions. We chose that first track you heard as we know its bizarre in a lot of ways but it was the first thing we spontaneously came up with ten months ago when we'd finally got rid off all the trappings."

And that, folks, is about all we have on Crypt Sound, given as how they are fighting shy of social media and so far have no Facebook or Twitter accounts. There is, however, one track online, taken from the album: the seven-minute 'I Fell To Nothing At All'. If this is an example of what to expect further from Crypt Sound, then it's likely to be experimental, diffuse, hard to define and coming from an aural place that could either be a hallowed place of prayer, or a Saturday night Jah jam.

As the band themselves say: 'It’s a mix unlike any other band in the country. Operating an aurally overwhelming, original sound. Two guitars, a bass and drums have never sounded quite like this.'

Quite.

Crypts are: Tom - guitar, vocals; Jake - guitar; Stanley - bass, vocals; Ed - drums, drum machine