Crowley sings carefully written songs with a serious baritone that is more melodic on subsequent listens than on the first. His timbre does sound, to these ears, almost identical to Bill Callahan of Smog, but Crowley's muse is more obviously sombre and the music more beautiful. Indeed, At The Starlight Hotel is just gorgeous, glimmering with a glittering echo-chamber of plangent sound, perhaps resembling the luscious melancholy of Tindersticks in their prime (think of Tiny Tears).
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