Album Review: Crystal Fighters “Everything Is My Family” Makes You Want To Hug Life

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Crystal Fighters’ Everything Is My Family is a quick-paced, abstract dream into the mind of a batch of hippies. Many cross between the complimentary and insulting nature of this term. While some acknowledge free love and peace is a good way to see life, others find hippies a “lazy” crew. Well, Crystal Fighters have created a record that shows this group is an exhilarating one to join.

Everything Is My Family is dedicated to discovering one’s interconnections with life. It uses simple lyrics in repetition to ingrain the singular virtues that enliven life: love, peace, and wisdom.  Songs like “Lay Low”, repeat poetic lyrics like, “Our Love Will Shine In Gold”, with such a gleeful hook that you can see love falling from the sky in golden pieces.  It is a beautiful sentiment that courses through the record to produce a positivism that challenges listeners. Personally, I feel positivity can be more challenging to acquire and maintain than negativity. We all have the tendency to look and absorb what goes wrong with our life more so than what goes right, and not many take the opportunity to unlearn this habit, but Crystal Fighters have in Everything Is My Family. This explains why the album is about feeling one with the universe/environment.

Only when you focus on the good of life, will you learn how to be apart of it. Tracks like “Yellow Sun” and “Living The Dream” are pulsed by incessant, tribal drumming representative of the spiritual rush one feels when they see the light of life rather then its darkness. These songs make you want to dance freely around a bonfire under the moonlight, particularly because lead singer Sebastian has a hypnotic voice that blends well with the mystic undertones of this band. Each song is like swinging crystals placing in you in a meditative state so that make you tranquilly walk through life rather than exasperatedly trudging through it.  Hence, Everything Is My Family plays like a recorded jam session. Sebastian, Gilbert, Graham, Ellie and Nila sing harmonies like a choir praising life for its joy, which makes you want to listen to the album again and again.

Yellow Sun: This song takes over your being completely. It is pure tribal-folk dance music with a slight club mix twist. It is as if the nightclub you went to had a welcome bonfire in the middle of its dance-floor. Moreover, Yellow Sun is about embracing life without question, which is a nice mentality. Too many times we ask life to embrace us without realizing we need to hold it, as well. 
Ways I Can’t Tell: love is not easy to admit, but this song sure makes it fun. It sounds like a techno-mix for a cheerleading team, which is typical for the Crystal Fighters. They create music that makes you want to cheer to life so that, in turn, it  cheers for you, as well. 
All Night: Crystall Fighters can make hooks and harmonies to sing along to with friends, which is the key to a great song. This track is the one you put on with friends as you drive around and sing every word as if you wrote it. 
In Your Arms: there is a Caribbean flare to this song that shows the loveliness of feeling passion for another. It is a track to dance to with your crush so that, by the end of this, he or she becomes your love. 

Everything Is My Family has become my go to album for when I need a spiritual uplift. Not many artists can capture happiness in song the way the Crystal Fighters do, and they do it in a way that makes you appreciate the virtue. Sometimes, due to negativity, we degrade joy as too sappy and unrealistic as a sentiment. Yet, through clear, straight lyrics, the Crystal Fighters show that life is a matter of perspective, and a brighter one means a better life. For More Information on the Crytsal Fighters and To Buy Everything Is My Family on October 21 Click Here. 

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