Crustation
Crustation was a British trip-hop band from the English city of Bristol .
The band
The three musicians Ian Dark , Stig Manley and Mark Taylor had been making music together for over a year and had already released two EPs on vinyl before the Irish singer Bronagh Slevin , who gave the band her voice, joined in 1995.
1997 released Crustation their first and so far only album Bloom . It contained ten melancholy and dreamy tracks. Bloom was recorded entirely electronically, but it was very important to Stig Manley and Co. to play all instruments live on stage in order to express their relationship to nature. It was this naturalness that set her apart from her Bristol trip-hop colleagues, who had a more urban style. Stig Manley told his bandmate Mark Taylor that the music was too pure. "Make it crustier. Sound has to be crusty ". This is how the band got their name.
Despite the best reviews, Crustation never achieved the success of their popular friends Tricky , Massive Attack or Portishead , with whom the three Brits partly worked on the same band projects.
The music of Crustation was produced by Steve Osborne and Ben Hillier under the label "Zomba".
After Bloom , singles and remixes followed, including from the French electronica band Air .