Craft Spells: "Your Tomb"

[mp3] Craft Spells: "Your Tomb" 

Keeping with our "surprising albums of the year" trend, Craft Spells have created a solid and long lasting album in their newest venture Idle Labor. Craft Spells manage to successfully live in the lo-fi Captured Tracks world, but are able to transcend any stereotypes and homogeneity by crafting creative and deeply satisfying tunes, laced with synth and jangly guitars hidden tastefully in the mix as to not be the primary focus of the compositions. Dig their newest video above.

Idle Labor

[mp3] Craft Spells: "From The Morning Heat"

Craft Spells' Idle Labor is the epitome of a Spring/Summer album. It's sticky sweet in the daylight hours; its hooks infectious, subtle, and outstandingly rewarding. As you approach dusk though, Idle Labor morphs into a more introspective and pensive outing than one would've expected. Usually we rely on backporch country to set the mood on those humid late-August nights, but we may have just found a new decidedly non-acoustic record to fill some of those lazy hours instead. Idle Labor is out now on Captured Tracks.