Crystal Stilts

Bands don’t like being part of a scene. New York five-piece Crystal Stilts are no different. They’ve been linked with the current wave of ’80s-influenced indie coming out of Brooklyn, but they aren’t having any of it. “Some of the names I see alongside ours, well, we have no shared values with them at all,” says guitarist and principle songwriter JB Townsend. “I’m not going to say who, but I think you can work it out.”