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Features Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins on "Dawn of a Bright New Nothing". Crash City Saints are back with the long awaited follow up to Glow In The Dark Music, which inspired rave reviews back in 2010. The band says their music sounds like a sandblaster spraying sugar, Are You Free? might be the best shoegaze-influenced album released all year, and yet it's so much more than that.

At times, Crash City Saints sound like a powerpop band in shoegaze clothing. 'There's No School Tomorrow,' a song that prompts the equation GBV+MBV=CCS, might shower us in sparks, but it grooves like The Cars.

What do you say about a band that's been able to take the best parts of MBV, Smashing Pumpkins, Galaxie 500, cut out the worst parts and make an album of 12 great songs?