The Crystal Teardrop’s first album, THE CRYSTAL TEARDROP IS FORMING, came out on Rise Above Records’ subsidiary Popclaw in May 2025. Steeped in classic psychedelic guitar pop and the Paisley Underground scene, not to mention the broader 60s cultural aesthetic, it has made them firm favourites with audiences in the UK and Europe. Now, barely a year later, comes its infectious follow-up, LOVE YOU MORE, also on Popclaw.
The songs on LOVE YOU MORE are fundamentally upbeat, but there are hard edges, both musically (check out the guitar solo on It’s Too Late!) and lyrically. Their words touch on relationships, politics and life itself, culminating in the deep psych jamming on Touch The Sun, which Alexandra says “questions the meaning of human existence”.
Remarkably for 2026, LOVE YOU MORE was recorded live in the studio, with the intention of capturing an authentic feel and atmosphere, with as little overdubbing as possible. “As with our first album, we used sixties instruments – Rickenbacker’s, Vox, Hammond organ, AC15s – and production techniques, but this time we experimented with more instruments, such as tanpura and swarmandal, drawing on our love for Eastern instrumentation and raga rock,” she says.
