Crystal Shipsss will play mostly from his debut album Yay which will receive a proper physical release through San Francisco’s Three Ring Records in July aswell as on Raw Onion Records in Denmark in June. It will be available on 10″ mint green vinyl, so for all you vinyl junkies out there it will definitely be one worth having.
Crystal Shipss is the brainchild of Jacob Faurholt from Aarhus, Denmark:
Like all great voyages, Crystal Shipsss began with a vision.
One morning in Montreal, a bleary-eyed Dane named Jacob Faurholt awoke to see that all of the friends he was visiting were making music, not for a living – but as their living. Soon afterward, Faurholt saw himself returning to Europe where he quit his teaching job in Denmark and began building the tender framework for his one-man musical vessel called Crystal Shipsss.
Before setting sail through a sonic seascape of innovative, industrial and introspective songs that share the same wavelengths as early Jesus & Mary Chain, the Pale Saints and the Boo Radleys, Faurholt set up a port of call in Berlin.These works include a collaboration with legendary producer and engineer, Kramer, best known for his work with Galaxie 500, Low, and Daniel Johnston. Faurholt embarked on writing and recording the songs that became the album “Yay” in the summer of 2010, in between acting jobs as an extra for German soap operas.
Nearly every song on “Yay” takes the listener on a less-than two-minute trip through a “light and airy to heavy fuzzed out journey into Faurholt’s extraordinary range as a songwriter,” (Floorshime Zipper Boots). “Yay” has gleaned other positive reviews through its limited cassette release via Portuguese label, Cakes and Tapes. Over the years Faurholt has played a long list of shows, sharing the stage with bands such as The Black Heart Procession, CocoRosie, Efterklang, and Grizzly Bear.
Here’s Burning Kingdom, the longest track on the album and an intense part of the live Crystal Shipsss experience:
Man Meets Bear is a lake scientist from Ontario who like sto spend most of his in Berlin theese days creating more music than bandcamp can keep up with. Last time I saw him play it was four-piece band with a drum kit and it sounded like Sparklehorse had come back to life, this time he will be joined by at least Jacob from Crystal Shipsss and probably more, it’s the nice about Man Meets Bear, you never know what the next recordings will be like or even his next live appearance for that matter.
This is a nice folky number off Hymns of M********, released January, 2010:
