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“Pale Flesh” creeps along with the uncanny decisiveness of an army of tinker-toy poltergeists moving into formation, while “Sad Eyes” sounds like a hedonistic club banger swallowed in the mud. There's still so much feedback clouding the throb and synth stab riffing of “Wrath Of God” with a harrowed Glass singing from across the thin veil that separates this world from another horrific dimension, that it would be wrong to call anything here “organic” in sound quality in the way it's traditionally meant.įor the most part, ( III) sounds like their previous two releases, taking a moment's respite from the prevailing chaos for lighter, cleaner moments of synth flowering (“Violent Youth”) before returning to the relentless onslaught of barely controlled noise. Does it make a difference in sound quality? Hard to say. She and producer Ethan Kath have always walked a very fine line between the raw mess of humanity and the sterility of machines, although here Kath turned away from their traditional computer-recording model and went straight to tape. Like most of her vocals, they've been manipulated and stretched to within an inch of obfuscation. “Light of God dimming weak/Nothing’s wrong, go back to sleep/Lost the will at infancy/Drown them in charity,” she sings on “Kerosene” over a skittering beat and the slow spreading of a flattened bass synth. It's a sense of malcontent returned to again and again throughout. “I didn't think I could lose faith in humanity any more than I already had, but after witnessing some things, it feels like the world is a dystopia where victims don't get justice and corruption prevails.” “A lot of bad things have happened to people close to me since (II) and it's profoundly influenced my writing as I've realized there will never be justice for them,” vocalist Alice Glass explained of the record prior to its release. On their third full-length, Canadian duo Crystal Castles have drank deeper still from the well of discontent, resulting in 12 tracks that paint an even bleaker picture than their heretofore already grim worldview. The duo debuted more new material in early 2016, and Crystal Castles' fourth album Amnesty appeared that August.Oppression, injustice, suffering-they all seem typical subject matter for a group whose sound has always been rooted in the paranoid apocalyptic. Another new song, 'Deicide,' surfaced that July, a few months before the new lineup's live debut at the Soundswild Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa that November. Glass left the project in October 2014 to pursue a solo career in April 2015, Kath resurfaced with a new Crystal Castles track, 'Frail,' which featured new vocalist Edith Frances. For 2012's more streamlined III, the duo decamped to Warsaw, where they recorded direct to tape, eschewing any computer-assisted recording. The duo returned in 2010 with another self-titled album when it leaked onto the Internet in late April of that year, the band released it digitally soon after, with a physical release following that May.

Tours with the Presets and Metric in 2007 set the stage for the release of Crystal Castles' self-titled debut album, which Last Gang released early in 2008. Kath and Glass worked on their own songs and also honed their remixing skills, tweaking songs for Klaxons as well as GoodBooks, Uffie, Health, and Bloc Party. 'Alice Practice' was released as a limited-edition 7' in summer 2006 on Merok Records, also home to Klaxons its 500-copy run sold out in three days. One of the songs the pair recorded, 'Alice Practice,' was something of an accident: it was intended to be a demo of Glass testing out a microphone, but its presence on MySpace piqued record labels' interest. When Kath collaborated with singer Alice Glass on some songs in spring 2005, Crystal Castles' lineup was complete.

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Kath got the moniker from the name of She-Ra's dwelling in the He-Man and Masters of the Universe cartoon series it's also the name of a 1983 Atari video game, which is oddly appropriate, considering that one component of the band's distinctive sound comes from a keyboard modified with an Atari 5200 sound chip.

Fusing lo-res electronic noise and pop hooks so effortlessly that it can seem accidental, Crystal Castles began as producer/multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath's solo project in late 2003.

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