The Crystal Teardrop do their best to bring the American west coast to a northern UK city.
The Crystal Teardrop
Stoke, England
Formed in Stoke-on-Trent in 2023, The Crystal Teardrop are five psychedelic evangelists determined to prove that the revolution of 1967 was merely postponed.
Fronted by Alexandra Rose, alongside Leon Jones, Stuart Gray, Ed Quigley and Huw Woodward, they summon the ghosts of the original freakbeat underground with fuzzed guitars, swirling organs, electric sitars and enough paisley to redecorate the Albert Hall.
Drawing on garage rock, acid folk and the more experimental excesses of late-sixties psychedelia, their 2025 debut The Crystal Teardrop…Is Forming established them as favourites on the British and European psych circuit.
October 2026 brought their second album, Love You More, released through Rise Above Records’ Popclaw imprint.
Their records are gloriously analogue. Their live performances are something approaching collective hallucination.
The revolution might be sixty years late.
But at least somebody remembered to bring the sitar.
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