The Crystal Ark - The City Never SleepsGavin Russom has made and is making some amazing music--in Delia and Gavin (who just released their Track #5 on DFA), on his own as Black Meteoric Star, and now, with various guest vocalists, as The Crystal Ark. One thing that seems to hold constant is the sheer degree of hotness, sensuality, etc. that comes through in his music, whether it's the solid sex of the basslines in those Black Meteoric Star songs or the bothered, slightly off-mic sighs and moans of Viva Ruiz in this song, dude has got an ear for what makes a song not just interesting but insanely alluring. "The City Never Sleeps" has a sinister edge, too, (that bass is elemental) so it sounds a little bit like the kind of thing that'd be appropriate for a quick tryst with a succubus/incubus (take your pick), but the song moves into a more everyday romantic mode towards the end, when Russom himself drops in and sings, like a straight-up creeper, "Open the door/Don't you want some more?" How can you not say yes to that?[BUY everything by The Crystal Ark]